Early California butterfly enthusiast John A. Comstock was enchanted by the Hermes copper butterfly, describing it in 1927 as “a fascinating little sprite.” But even as far back as the '20s, it was ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday declared one of Southern California's rarest butterflies — the Hermes copper butterfly — as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 5, 2017) The bog copper butterfly (Lycaena epixante) is a member of the second largest family of butterflies, Lycaenidae, which includes over 4,700 species worldwide.

The Bathurst Copper Butterfly has become part of the Department of Environment and Heritage’s new Save our Species conservation program. Save our Species aims to maximise the number of threatened ...

Keep your eyes out for this metallic beauty. WITH A TINY wingspan of around 20mm and a flying period of just two weeks a year, it’s not the easiest of tasks to track down the incredibly elusive purple ...