The red-spotted purple butterfly has an iridescent sheen that ... From above, they are mostly black and iridescent blue with small orange spots on the wing tips. In addition, more red-orange ...

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 ...

each type of butterfly has its own special symbolism associated with it. Butterflies come in almost all colors of the rainbow including red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, black, and white.

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 ...