Among the nearly lost is a butterfly with a one-inch wingspan called Fender’s blue. Endemic to this valley, a Fender’s blue–type specimen—used by scientists to describe a species—was ...

“Once we start looking at a different scale, it’s a whole new world, it’s a whole new universe ... it’s also for creatures in the air, like the endangered blue butterfly. “They’re maybe not a mountain ...

An endangered butterfly’s survival in Western Victoria isn’t the stuff of magic but rather a story of dedicated habitat restoration.

On the whole, butterfly groups with bigger shifts in that ... In the case of the Fender’s blue, the revival has been driven by efforts to create more of the rare habitat on which the insect ...

Among the nearly lost is a nickel-sized butterfly called Fender’s blue. Credit: Lauren Crow/High Country News Credit: Lauren Crow/High Country News Now, the butterfly’s population has ...

Among the nearly lost is a nickel-sized butterfly called Fender’s blue. Endemic to this valley, Fender’s blue was first collected in 1929. Shortly thereafter, it vanished, and, for 50 years ...

More than eight decades ago, a mesmerizing butterfly with iridescent cobalt wings and stunning spots called the Xerces blue vanished from San Francisco. When it disappeared, the Xerces became ...