In this article, weâ ll explore some rare butterfly species that migrate across continents, highlighting their incredible journeys and the challenges they face along the way.

A rare butterfly species has returned to an Oxfordshire beauty spot after an absence of 30 years. The black hairstreak was spotted on North Leigh Common where preservation work to retain ...

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 ...

Many pollinators, including butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, beetles and even common flies, call Ohio home. Over 130 species of butterflies and skippers flutter across the Buckeye State ...

Pithecops fulgens , also known as Tsushima Uraboshi Shijimi , or the Tsushima Blue Quaker, is one of the rarest butterflies in Japan. But the population has plummeted in recent decades ...

Traces of a rare butterfly species have been found in Hong Kong for the first time in over a decade. Experts expect more of them to appear. The Fung Yuen Butterfly Reserve said that one of its ...

Hatchlings are killed young, to preserve their wings. The trade in rare butterflies—both legal and illegal—spans the planet, from catchers to middlemen to collectors. A catcher on Bacan island ...

The gazetting of the Kinabalu Birdwing butterfly, known as “Kalibambang Emas”, as the official state butterfly of Sabah, is ...

RENO, Nev.— Responding to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the bleached sandhill skipper, an extremely rare species of ...