Here is the list of most breathtaking and beautiful butterfly species in the world. The black swallowtail, also known as the eastern black swallowtail or American swallowtail, has black wings ...

The Xerces blue butterfly went extinct along the San Francisco coast some 80 years ago. But scientists have identified a ...

The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

Blue butterfly eggs are small and easy to miss, said Jacobs. In addition to the rubberweed, their food source, workers are sectioning areas off where the butterflies are known to lay their eggs to ...

A comprehensive study of U.S. butterfly populations shows dramatic declines in most species, but Pacific Northwest ecologists ...

Small Tortoiseshells ... Black Hairstreak and Holly Blue. Butterfly monitoring and conservation work remains essential amid the ongoing challenges posed by climate change, according to the ...

Q. I am an urban farmer managing a small Community Service Agriculture (CSA) operation and am researching the butterfly pea.