The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the ... Ottman added. The Fender’s caterpillars enter a kind of delayed development called diapause during the winter before emerging ...

A blue clipper butterfly from Asia rested on flowers ... non-native butterflies have lived their lives there are no eggs or caterpillars remaining from those species allowed into the wild.

Or rather, she made it right, building a net out of a community of friends and her devotion to resurrecting a cerulean-blue ... to larva (caterpillar) to pupa (chrysallis) to butterfly, but ...

Among the nearly lost is a nickel-sized butterfly ... Fender’s blue exists in tight relationship with a particular host plant. From the moment a Fender’s caterpillar hatches in early summer ...

Within the southern two-thirds of these dunes lies a preserve, home to the largest population of the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly ... accidentally step on caterpillars or damage the ...