In 1979, somewhere in Dartmoor, a butterfly died. That would hardly have been an exceptional event, but this individual was a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) and it was the last of its kind in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it would seek protections for the regal fritillary, a large non-migratory butterfly with orange and black markings. It's suffering from habitat loss in ...

The globally endangered large blue butterfly was introduced to Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire last year. Now, more than ever, we need support so that we can continue with our vital nature ...

Painstaking conservation effort to accommodate insect’s complex lifecycle pays off The biggest reintroduction to date of the large blue has led to the rare butterfly flying on a Cotswold hillside ...

The Large Blue Butterfly, one of the UK's rarest butterflies, is now thriving! Once declared extinct in the UK, numbers of the large blue are at their highest ever, with the south west of England ...

On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that ...