Butterflies have long been believed to represent transformation and change, thanks to the stunning metamorphosis they must go ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago, developers hoped to build on San Bruno Mountain until a movement was launched to protect the land and its ...

Leave fallen leaves as shelter for overwintering caterpillars. Allow nettles, brambles and other wild plants as a jumble of ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...

This dusky-blue butterfly was extinct in Britain ... Now found mostly in southern England, this butterfly's caterpillar feeds on cowslips and primroses. Conservationists have worked hard to ...

The large blue butterfly is one of Europe's most endangered ... It leads a very unusual life, spending most of the year as a caterpillar inside red ant nests where it feeds on grubs.

Luke explains, 'We had blue morphos breeding in the butterfly house one year. We were very excited about all of the tiny tufted caterpillars that appeared, but sadly we only ended up with one very ...

Meanwhile, a reddish liquid spills out. That's all the waste the butterfly, née caterpillar, produced during its stay. Once its wings expand and harden, it's ready to mate, pollinate, and slurp ...