The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

In short, people so love the colorful, fluttering pollinators that they ... She has worked on an effort to recover Fender’s blue in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The small butterfly is found only there ...

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. Through ...