Plumbago isn't just beautiful to people. Bees and butterflies also adore the plant and its pale blue flowers. In Florida and ...

With no sightings in two years, the rare Ogasawara blue butterfly, named after its island chain natural habitat far south of Tokyo and designated a national natural treasure, is considered extinct ...

The Tsushima Blue Quaker butterfly, an iconic symbol of Tsushima ... In one conservation area, a rare plant found only in Tsushima, Astilbe tsushimensis, began to grow shortly after the deer ...

Sand Mountain blue butterflies live in only one place on Earth — within and near the dunes of “Singing” Sand Mountain in Nevada. But over the past three decades, extensive off-road vehicle use on ...

The scarce butterfly can be found in grasslands and around host plants such as wild blue lupine and wild indigo. Their numbers continue to decline, and they are predicted to be federally endangered.

The rare Mount Charleston blue butterfly lives in just a handful of alpine meadows on Mount Charleston above Las Vegas. The species was protected under the Endangered Species Act in 2013. One of its ...