While wandering through an alpine meadow, Haiyong spotted a patch of blue among the grass. Initially thinking they were flowers, he approached carefully and realised they were butterflies. To preserve ...

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 ...

Mount Charleston blue butterfly. Photo by Patrick Donnelly, Center for Biological Diversity. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation ...