Like the rare Karner blue butterfly, the White Mountain fritillary is being studied in hopes of improving its numbers and learning more about how it survives and to see if it should also be listed ...

Saddle Mountain is one of the few remaining areas where early blue violets grow in large enough quantities to sustain a butterfly population. Elsewhere, the flowers are often chocked out by weeds ...

Shervin Hess / Oregon Zoo Zoo officials say Saddle Mountain was chosen as a reintroduction site in 2017 due to its abundance of early blue violets, the sole food source for the caterpillars.

NATURAL HISTORY SAND MOUNTAIN BLUE BUTTERFLY } Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana FAMILY: Lycaenidae DESCRIPTION: The Sand Mountain blue is a small butterfly with a wingspan just under an inch; males ...

Nevada’s entry is the Mount Charleston blue, an extremely rare butterfly subspecies found only in the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas.

Reakirt’s blue butterflies were moving among the flowerheads of white clover in my lawn. I presumed that they were nectaring, but I watched closely and discovered that they were ovipositing.

It would include the construction and operation of a crisscrossing network of mountain-bike trails and a so-called “mountain coaster” in the heart of the species’ protected critical habitat. The Mount ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to designate a little more than 8 square miles in alpine elevations as critical habitat for the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, said Daniel Balduini, an ...

Object Details author Laidlaw, W. B. R (William Brittain Rutherford) 1902- Contents Historical review -- Systematic position -- Wings : Patterns & variations -- Distribution -- Behaviour : populations ...