Two sapphire-colored natural jewels in the Capital District are the wild blue lupine and the Karner blue butterfly. The wild blue lupine has stalks of multiple flowers ranging from pink to blue. The ...

Two sapphire-colored natural jewels in the Capital District are the wild blue lupine and the Karner blue butterfly. The wild blue lupine has stalks of multiple flowers ranging from pink to blue. The ...

It’s the most prominent butterfly when it’s time for public celebrations. The small insect has its own festival in Black River Falls, a city near the Karners’ range. And the butterflies, blue-grayish ...

More than 20 years of habitat restoration and breeding programs have helped the endangered Karner blue butterfly make a comeback in the pine barrens of upstate New York where it was discovered by ...

From the top of Pigeon Butte in western Oregon’s William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, the full width of the Willamette Valley fits into a gaze. Slung between the Coast Range and the Cascades, ...

State butterfly biologists Heidi Holman, left, and Heather Siart scout for frosted elfin butterflies in the Concord pine barrens, where the endangered Karner blue butterfly was reintroduced nearly 20 ...

the Karner blue butterfly (KBB) and its habitat. mixture and water as a food source. "The eggs that I collected were raised as larvae and pupae," Pasternak said. adapting to climate change in the ...

After the butterfly’s rediscovery in 1989, researchers began searching for Kincaid’s lupine. Like the insect, the plant was exceedingly rare. It grows in upland prairies, ecosystems composed of ...

Everyone comes back to San Francisco, including, on a bright morning on Twin Peaks, the endangered mission blue butterfly. Last seen within city limits 30 years ago, the iridescent blue butterfly was ...

These days, troubled pollinators make the national news weekly. That wasn't always the case. In 2007, the first National Pollinator Week helped raise awareness about threats to the birds, bats, ...

This article was originally published in High Country News. From the top of Pigeon Butte in western Oregon’s William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, the full width of the Willamette Valley fits ...