Here's how to identify an Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly and attract them to your ... Female Eastern swallowtails tend to have more blue on the hindwings than the males.

The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...

The butterfly is called the chestnut tiger, or Parantica sita. It was found in Repulse Bay by Ling Yuet-fung, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong’s School of Biological Sciences.