There is a group of day-flying butterflies which look rather like moths, being short, stubby, and with fat bodies. These are ...

Chequered skipper, the butterfly extinct in England for 40 years, has bred in the wild for the first time since being re-introduced from Belgium last year.

English-born chequered skipper butterflies are flying in this country for the first time in more than 40 years as part of a conservation project, experts say.

Have you ever heard of the chequered skipper butterfly? Probably not! There are not many of them around. They can still be found in Scotland, but became extinct in England more than 40 years ago.

A butterfly's tongue functions much like a flexible straw, ... For instance, plants in the mallow family are favored by the west coast lady and the common checkered-skipper caterpillars, ...

The reintroduction of a species of butterfly that went extinct in England nearly 50 years ago has been declared a success. The chequered skipper was always scarce, but died out in 1976 with ...

A butterfly that became extinct in England has reemerged and is now thriving thanks to a successful breeding project. As BirdGuides reported, ecologists brought a donor population of chequered ...

Describing the rarity of these butterflies, Andrew said: "The large chequered skipper in particular is ultra rare. In 1946 it turned up in Jersey and had a small colony there. The theory is that ...

In just 26 years, the distribution of rare butterflies has plummeted by 72% in Eastern Denmark. ... mazarine blue and northern chequered skipper," says Emil Blicher Bjerregård.

Chequered skipper butterflies have been brought from Belgium to Northamptonshire, where they are thriving. Narrow-headed ants, which had been driven into a single wildlife refuge in southern ...