But in one small corner of New York, a rare species is proving that recovery is possible. The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported that the Karner blue butterfly, once on the brink of local ...

Dorset-based Butterfly Conservation has also reversed a decline in the area's Adonis Blue butterflies, a species native to chalk environments, through scrub clearance and grazing management.

Polyommatus icarus, also known as a common blue butterfly. Credit: Stefan Pinkert Mountaintops host some of the world’s most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these ...

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.

The California Academy of Sciences used genetic testing to identify a blue butterfly species similar to the Xerces species that went extinct and disappeared from the San Francisco coastline.