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 ...

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 ...

Blue butterfly eggs are small and easy to miss, said Jacobs. In addition to the rubberweed, their food source, workers are sectioning areas off where the butterflies are known to lay their eggs to ...