Britain's rarest and biggest blue butterfly species, the Large Blue, has returned to a Gloucestershire site for the first time in 150 years, thanks to a successful reintroduction project led by The ...

A NATURALIST from Bolton has bred a distinctive new butterfly . . . by accident. Two tropical species mated inside Mark Lightowler's greenhouse to produce five butterflies the size of English bats. Mr ...

The Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a rare breed: Some 100,000 years ago, two different species mated and their hybrid offspring gave rise to the Appalachian species, researchers have found ...

A rare migrant butterfly from Europe - which is heading north as the climate changes - appears to be trying to establish a breeding colony on England's south coast, conservationists said today. The ...

A butterfly whose numbers have seen dramatic declines in recent years is breeding in Scotland for the first time in 130 years, experts said. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Conservationists have successfully bred the extremely rare Oregon silverspot butterfly in captivity, a potential breakthrough for saving a species that once was found in coastal ...

The threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly in its native coastal habitat on Mount Hebo in Oregon. (Michael Durham/Oregon Zoo) PORTLAND (AP) — Conservationists have successfully bred the extremely rare ...

ONE of Britain’s rarest breeds of spring butterflies has produced a second brood this year - only the third time it has done so in more than a century. Share Article ...