The Karner blue butterfly, once on the brink of local extinction, is making a remarkable recovery in upstate New York.

Work to preserve the pine barren and population monitoring has seen the local population of Karner blue butterflies grow from as few as 200 individuals to as many as 10,000 to 20,000 Pollinator ...

When people think of flowers for honey bees and pollinators, gardens and wildflower prairies often come to mind. However, ...

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.

Twenty-nine years of monitoring data on the Karner blue butterfly at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve was part of the records the study used of 12.6 million individual butterflies, from 554 species, ...

“There’s also quite a few other rare butterflies” at the site ... smaller patches,” which is what’s happening at the Karner Blue Sanctuary, she said. Crosthwaite said the site’s ...

Steven P. Campbell, a study co-author who has been monitoring the Karner blue butterfly in Albany, said in an interview last week that butterflies serve as an indicator of the state of the ecosystem.

The complaint says the proposed expansion will, “result in various pollutants raining down on the headwaters of the Au Sable, ...