(photo by Michael Hixon/SCNG) The endangered El Segundo blue butterfly and its habitat are getting a boost from the efforts of the South Bay Parkland Conservancy and its volunteers. The SBPC ...

Within the southern two-thirds of these dunes lies a preserve, home to the largest population of the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly. Yet these insects, along with another endangered local ...

They’re looking for the El Segundo Blue Butterfly, but this endangered species can be hard to spot. It’s tiny; roughly comparable in size to a thumbnail is how the folks from Palos Verdes ...

Amid surfers and skaters, a tiny blue butterfly has scored a telling victory in its fight against extinction. The rare El Segundo blue has returned to two popular beaches southwest of Los Angeles ...

In 1976, the El Segundo Blue Butterfly became the first ever insect on the federal endangered species list. Today, it numbers well over 100,000. Over 25 years ago, the El Segundo Blue Butterfly ...

Once teetering on the brink of extinction, the future of the El Segundo blue butterfly isn’t quite so blue anymore. Even with the roar of jetliners taking off just a few hundred feet above ...

A female El Segundo Blue Butterfly — no bigger than an inch across — has just laid eggs in the white, clustered flowers of the shrub. She depends on the plant for survival, as will her children.

The South Bay Parkland Conservancy and the city of Hermosa Beach are launching a project to add seacliff buckwheat, the only plant that El Segundo blue butterfly caterpillars will eat, according ...

El Segundo Poet Laureate Kweku Abimbola’s event, “The Land Remembers: El Segundo Blue Butterfly Poetry Walk,” will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 19, in collaboration with the El Segundo ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — An endangered butterfly is making a comeback near Los Angeles International Airport. The population of the El Segundo Blue Butterfly at the 200-acre Dunes Habitat Preserve ...