In a first-of-its-kind study, Yale researchers were able to create a global map of butterfly diversity “hot-spots.” These ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, a reddish liquid spills out. That's all the waste the butterfly, née caterpillar, produced during its stay. Once its wings expand and harden, it's ready to mate, pollinate, and slurp ...

Female Eastern swallowtails tend to have more blue on the hindwings ... Grow these butterfly host plants to attract pollinators. Eastern swallowtail caterpillars are green with large yellow ...

Pretty much the first two-thirds away from the ocean was all dunes. That was a perfect habitat for a butterfly, a little blue butterfly, that flew, feeding on a specific host plant called deer weed.