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 ...

The butterfly population has declined for the tenth year in a row, and in 2024 it reached its lowest level since the start of ...

the chalk hill blue and small copper suffered their worst year ever. Richard Fox, from Butterfly Conservation, said he was “devastated” by the declines in British butterflies, which he said ...

said renowned butterfly species including the small tortoiseshell, the chalk hill blue and small copper suffered their worst year ever. It was also the second-worst year, since monitoring started ...