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A BEAUTIFUL rare butterfly has been bred on Teesside - possibly the first time outside of its native home on the islands of the Indian Ocean. The stunning green and black creature, an ornithopetra ...

Mark Williams was out with his butterfly net in his favorite South African mountain range when a flutter of gray-blue wings sailed by. They were almost as small and nondescript as the other gray-blue ...

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A rare migrant butterfly from Europe - which is heading north as the climate changes - appears to be trying to establish a breeding colony on England's south coast, conservationists said today. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Sarah Meredith/The National Trust Britain's rarest and biggest blue butterfly species, the Large Blue, has returned ...

TWO rare species of butterfly were spotted in North Wales over the summer. A Butterfly Commission report revealed a silver-studded blue was seen at Gwrych Castle, Abergele, while a large heath ...

The threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly in its native coastal habitat on Mount Hebo in Oregon. (Michael Durham/Oregon Zoo) PORTLAND (AP) — Conservationists have successfully bred the extremely rare ...

ONE of Britain’s rarest breeds of spring butterflies has produced a second brood this year - only the third time it has done so in more than a century. Share Article ...

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Lepidopterist population has dwindled to a few dozen, mostly middle-age men Johannesburg, South Africa: Mark Williams was out with his butterfly net in his favourite South African mountain range when ...