Fifty years ago, developers hoped to build on San Bruno Mountain until a movement was launched to protect the land and its ...

Plumbago isn't just beautiful to people. Bees and butterflies also adore the plant and its pale blue flowers. In Florida and nearby areas, it's even a common host plant to the Cassius blue butterfly ...

The scientists hoped to find species belonging to the Nops genus, a group of spiders that are “active hunters” but “challenging to locate” because of their “orange-red c ...

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 ...

Revealing the most interesting or memorable behaviour of any of the multitude of smaller animals without backbones – whether on land, in the air, or in water. Haiyong Cai (China) notices the shimmery ...

The large blue butterfly is one of Europe's most endangered ... particularly because large blues rely on flowering plants and ant nests. Other rare insects that benefitted from the restoration ...