After nearly 30 years of petitions and lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected one of Southern California’s rarest butterflies, the Hermes ...

Early California butterfly enthusiast John A. Comstock was enchanted by the Hermes copper butterfly, describing it in 1927 as “a fascinating little sprite.” But even as far back as the '20s, it was ...

One of the most common species that we can find almost everywhere is the little Fiery Copper butterfly. With an approximate 3-cm. wingspan, the Fiery Copper is bright orange in color and can be ...