LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — An effort is taking wing in Lansing to recognize a nickel-sized insect as Michigan’s official state butterfly. House Bill 5306, introduced earlier this month with more than 50 ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has provided an update on the state’s Karner Blue Butterfly Season. Karner blue butterflies. Lycaeides melissa samuelis, are nearing the end ...

Across the United States, butterfly populations are shrinking. A massive study published by the journal Science analyzed data from over 76,000 surveys and found that butterfly populations dropped 22% ...

ALBANY – The number of Karner blue butterflies at the Pine Bush Preserve has grown from less than 1,000 in 2007 to more than 15,000 in 2016, according to Albany Pine Bush Commission Conservation ...

CLIFTON PARK — A deed restriction put in place on a Wood Road property more than a decade ago to preserve a small Karner blue butterfly habitat was lifted by Clifton Park lawmakers on Dec. 16 after it ...

The Karner blue, New Hampshire s state butterfly, is a wisp of a thing, a tiny fluttering of silvery-blue wings. Unless you happen to be wandering through a pine barren or black-oak savannah, however, ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 20 years of habitat restoration and breeding programs have helped the endangered Karner blue butterfly make a comeback in the pine barrens of upstate New York where it ...

The 13th-annual Karner Blue Butterfly Festival is set this year for Saturday, July 18 in downtown Black River Falls from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. The Karner Blue Butterfly Festival showcases the tiny Karner ...

BLACK RIVER FALLS — The organizers of two Black River Falls festivals have announced they are combining their efforts. The 2016 Karner Blue Butterfly Festival to be held Friday, July 1, and Saturday, ...