The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed to add the monarch butterfly to the threatened species list.

Hundreds of rare, blazing orange butterflies are slated to be released ... picky butterfly’s main food source, the early blue violet. “It’s this tiny little flower and it’s the only ...

Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday proposed protecting the striking long-distance migrators under the Endangered Species ...

For example, the owl butterfly has contrasting blue and orange scales on the upperside.' Another popular technique, known as aposematism, is for a butterfly to advertise its toxicity to predators by ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...

DESCRIPTION: The Smith's blue is a small butterfly with a less-than-one-inch wingspan. Adult males are a brilliant blue, while females are brown; both sexes have a red-orange band across the underside ...

Silver-studded blue butterflies have been lost from more than 80% of their former habitats in the past century A protected species of butterfly has been reintroduced to its former home after an ...