In 1979, somewhere in Dartmoor, a butterfly died. That would hardly have been an exceptional event, but this individual was a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) and it was the last of its kind in ...

Painstaking conservation effort to accommodate insect’s complex lifecycle pays off The biggest reintroduction to date of the large blue has led to the rare butterfly flying on a Cotswold hillside ...

Ants, Battenberg cake and 37 years of heroic labour by one scientist will be celebrated today as the ingredients that brought the large blue butterfly back from the dead. This rare and mysterious ...

On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from near extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that ...

The globally endangered large blue butterfly was introduced to Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire last year. Now, more than ever, we need support so that we can continue with our vital nature ...

The Large Blue Butterfly, one of the UK's rarest butterflies, is now thriving! Once declared extinct in the UK, numbers of the large blue are at their highest ever, with the south west of England ...

The largest reintroduction of a butterfly once extinct in Britain has been a success after they bred in their first year. The large blue butterfly was introduced to Rodborough Common in ...

Finally, some good news! Conservationists have successfully reintroduced previously extinct large blue butterflies to the UK, with the creatures populating parts of the country for the first time in ...

The Large Blue is now found in higher concentrations in southwest England than anywhere else in the world. It was declared extinct in the UK in 1979 but was reintroduced from Sweden in 1984. Article ...

The large blue butterfly is thriving on reserves in Gloucestershire and Somerset A rare butterfly once declared extinct in the UK is now being seen in record numbers after being reintroduced.