Four rare species have fluttered into view during my continuing quest to photograph the endangered Mount Charleston blue ...

Palos Verdes and El Segundo blue butterflies are hard to spot. But you can see them if you know where and when to look. There are also ways to help the endangered insects.

Biologist Durrell Kapan, Ph.D. of the California Academy of Sciences says the butterflies will be replacing a long-lost species called the Xerces Blue that went extinct in the 1940s.

Blue butterflies return to San Francisco Presidio, 80 years after Xerces species extinction. The California Academy of Sciences used genetic testing to identify a blue butterfly species similar to ...

Wildlife experts then collected dozens of silvery blue butterflies from Monterey County, marked them for future identification and transported them to San Francisco. So far, they've released 43.

No matter where you live, you can see these butterflies during the warmer months of the year. Discover the top 10 swallowtail host plants and flowers to grow. Swallowtails Are Aptly Named ...

In 1943, the gossamer-winged Xerces blue butterfly disappeared from San Francisco as housing, parks and museums completely wiped out its habitat in what is now the Richmond and the Sunset.

Karner blue butterflies may be gone in Indiana. Lauri Harvey Keagle , (219) 852-4311 May 22, 2015 May 22, 2015 Updated Oct 14, 2024; 0; 1 of 7 ...

Butterflies, however, can see these small variations in the UV spectrum, like humans can see shades of blue and green. Gruev notes, "It is intriguing to me how they are able to see those small ...

PORTER | Ralph Grundel remembers walking through prairies of wild lupine at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in the late 1990s and seeing hundreds of endangered Karner blue butterflies fluttering ...