The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 ...

If so, what creatures should serve as surrogates for extinct ones ... a symbol for British butterfly conservation. Pyle, an American, thought of the Xerces blue. “We should make that our ...

Corrections & Clarifications: The article has been updated to correctly reflect the Fender's blue butterfly's downlisting on the Endangered Species List. It remains on the list as "threatened." ...

The Xerces was the first known invertebrate to go extinct in North America. It became the namesake of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. So working on putting a blue butterfly back ...

Atala butterflies were believed to be extinct from 1937 until some ... The underside of an Atala butterfly’s wing has three rows of blue or green spots and a large red spot on the hind wing ...

Due to population decline and habitat loss, the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, Icaricia shasta charlestonensis, entered the endangered species list in 2013. However, efforts are ongoing to help ...

Within the southern two-thirds of these dunes lies a preserve, home to the largest population of the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly. Yet these insects, along with another endangered local ...

A butterfly once thought to have gone extinct is now thriving in Britain after 150 years. Thousands of the large blue butterfly have been recorded in south-west England, thanks to a conservation ...