Another kind of butterfly, El Segundo Blue, lives only on the sand at the end of the runway at Los Angeles International Airport. Still another, the Uncompahgre Fritillary, is found only in small ...

Great news for butterfly enthusiasts: record numbers of the once-endangered heath fritillary butterfly have been spotted at Pound Wood Nature Reserve in Essex. Conservation efforts have been ...

Inside Out looks at efforts to save one of the country's rarest and most threatened butterflies, the high brown fritillary. Since the 1970s national numbers of the butterfly have declined by 90% ...

Record numbers of heath fritillary butterflies have been counted at an Essex nature reserve, a wildlife trust says Record numbers of a butterfly once close to extinction have been recorded at a ...

When the butterfly emerged from its pupa, Robert Reed was stunned. It was a Gulf fritillary—a bright-orange species with a few tigerlike stripes. But this butterfly had no trace of orange anywhere.

the small pearl-bordered fritillary "remains widespread and locally abundant in Scotland and Wales but has undergone a severe decline in England." SWNS reports the population of the butterfly has ...

In a year when a “butterfly emergency” has been declared, one species in Northern Ireland is bucking the trend. The marsh fritillary made its presence felt in autumn, when the caterpillars ...

The Australian fritillary Our most imperilled butterfly is the Australian fritillary, with a 94 per cent chance of extinction within 20 years. Like many of our butterfly species, a major threat ...

House Bill 229 would make the Gulf Fritillary, scientifically known as the agraulis vanillae, Louisiana’s official state butterfly. Also called the passion butterfly, the Gulf Fritillary ...

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