A prescribed burn is planned to help restore wildlife habitat at the Karner Blue Sanctuary in Port Franks. The sanctuary ...

The Karner blue butterfly is one of many species of butterflies that depend on specific host plants. Because the caterpillars only feed on blue lupine plants, they depend on hatching at the right time ...

The endangered Karner blue butterfly has struggled with habitat loss. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

A new study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of butterflies and moths and the flowering time of plants, with implications for ...

Two-thirds of studied species showed declines of more than 10 percent,” wrote Science editor Bianca Lopez in a summary of the study. “Many insects have the potential for rapid population growth and ...

With restoration efforts, one Karner blue population in the Albany Pine Bush Preserve in New York rebounded from a few hundred individuals in the early 1990s to thousands of butterflies. Similar ...