Summer is finally here, and with it comes ample opportunity to get outside and explore. One sure sign of the season is the emergence of butterflies. The longer, warmer days bring these colorful ...

A female Fender's blue butterfly, a threatened species endemic to Oregon's Willamette Valley. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Wikipedia via Courthouse News) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — The U.S. Fish and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Zoo has released the last batch of its zoo-raised silverspot butterflies into the wild as part of a summer program aimed at boosting their numbers. The zoo said Monday ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In a breezy coastal meadow this week, Oregon Zoo conservationists and their partners said goodbye to 381 of the zoo’s tiniest residents. They were releasing Oregon silverspot ...

Ashland photographer David Lee Myers has been devoted to butterflies for 30 years. The author of “Wings in the Light: Wild Butterflies in North America,” volunteers his expertise on critical butterfly ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — When you think of the Oregon Zoo, animals like lions, tigers and elephants probably come to mind. But the zoo also works closely with the some of the smallest creatures, like ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the Fender’s blue butterfly will be downlisted from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. This action is based on ...

Millions of western monarch butterflies once visited Oregon and other Western states each spring to drink flower nectar, pollinate plants and lay their eggs after wintering in forests in coastal ...

In 2000, a remarkable discovery was made in a refuge area near Corvallis, Oregon: the sighting of the Fender's blue butterfly (Icaricia icarioides fenderi), a species thought to be extinct. This ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed downlisting the Fender’s blue butterfly from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. The proposal is based ...