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| Article | Summary |
| Real Green Win: Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly Protected Habitat Doubles – Conservation 4/30/10 |
Endangered Dragonfly Now Protected in Missouri and Michigan National Forests; New Habitat Added in Door County and other parts of of Wisconsin. |
| Some good news about biodiversity by Dr PHILIPPA TOMLINSON – Isle of Man Today 4/20/10 |
A recent report published by the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society by Garry Curtis shows an increase in the number of butterfly species to be seen on the Island. |
| Popular butterfly habitat destroyed – The Star Online (Indonesia) 1/6/10 | Workers who removed the historical Gopeng pipeline for scrap metal have destroyed the largest site for Rajah Brooke butterflies in Ulu Geroh, a major tourist attraction. All that remains of the salt lick, where the butterflies used to congregate in the thousands to sip water rich in minerals, is now just muddy ground. |
| Emerging from the cocoon by Chen Dujuan – Global Times 1/4/10 | Beijing’s first butterfly garden is holding test operations and will open officially in May 2010 in Beijing’s suburban Shunyi district.Occupying an area of over 650,000 square meters and home to more than half a million butterflies, it is the largest butterfly garden in Asia. |
| Queen of Spain Fritillary breeds on Sussex Coast - Surfbird News 11/1/09 |
A rare migrant butterfly from Europe appears to be attempting to establish a colony in Britain. The Queen of Spain Fritillary butterfly has been breeding at a location on the Sussex coast. The butterfly has been increasing in numbers across northern Europe and its arrival in Britain is almost certainly a sign of climate change. |
| Group Goes to Bat for Silverspot Butterfly by SONYA ANGELICA DIEHN – San Mateo (California) Courthouse News Service 10/29/09 |
Development threatens one of last remaining callipe silverspot butterfly populations, environmentalists say. The endangered butterfly depends upon a single plant species to survive – the yellow pansy – and a San Bruno Mountain housing complex would drastically reduce a vital corridor for the insect, San Bruno Mountain Watch says. |
| Vanishing Butterflies Flutter Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection by Jonathan Evans – Center for Biological Diversity 10/26/09 |
Through a legal settlement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Center for Biological Diversity, the Obama administration will reconsider protection for two of Southern California’s rarest butterflies, the Hermes copper and Thorne’s hairstreak. The settlement agreement, which was approved by the court late Friday afternoon, requires the agency to decide again whether the butterflies should be considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act. |
| Beetle Infestation Threatens Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary – Earthweek 10/23/09 |
Environmental officials in Mexico are battling an unprecedented beetle infestation that threatens to destroy the forests of the monarch butterfly’s winter home. |
| Checkerspot butterfly next on endangered list? by Peter Fimrite – San Francisco Chronicle 10/21/09 |
The federal government recommended that a rare 2-inch butterfly that once fluttered over much of the Bay Area and now lives only in Santa Clara County be designated an endangered species. |
| Dragonflies return to land of Henry VIII by Rebecca Connop Price 10/15/09 |
DRAGONFLIES are thriving in the nature reserves surrounding Yateley, Sandhurst and Crowthorne, according to the Forestry Commission. |
| Developer bulldozes butterfly habitat on San Bruno Mountain by Julia Scott – San Mateo County Times 10/5/09 |
A developer bulldozed an area containing endangered butterfly habitat on San Bruno Mountain last week, catching city officials off-guard and enraging environmentalists who plan to file a lawsuit to prevent the company from preparing the land for homes to be built. |
| Nebraska man helps butterfly migration by Trisha Schulz – World-Herald News Service 10/4/09 |
From mid-August through October, it’s monarch madness for Eugene Young of Plainview, Neb. Young volunteers as part of the University of Kansas’ Monarch Watch, tagging hundreds of butterflies as the distinctive insects flit through the Midwest on their way to central Mexico to roost for the winter. |
| Lakeshore among 25 most endangered parks by Deborah Sederberg – The News-Dispatch 10/3/09 |
MICHIGAN CITY – A tiny blue butterfly about the size of a quarter may be a local harbinger of the threat of warmer climes to come – or maybe not. |
| Dragonflies Go Thirsty in The Mediterranean - News Blaze 9/29/09 |
One fifth of Mediterranean dragonflies and damselflies are threatened with extinction at the regional level as a result of increasing freshwater scarcity, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. |
| Butterfly mystery by BRIAN NEARING – Times Union, Albany, NY 10/1/09 | It’s been 17 years since the tiny Karner blue butterfly, a resident and symbol of rare inland pine barrens in the Capital Region, went on the federal endangered species list. Now, despite years of efforts to save the butterflies, including the creation of a 3,000-acre preserve in Albany County to protect their habitat, their numbers continue to dwindle. |
| Butterfly habitat agreement signed by Mike Lee - SignOnSanDiego.com 10/1/09 |
After spending two decades trying to protect monarch butterflies, the leader of an Escondido-based nonprofit group yesterday joined officials from Mexico and California to launch a plan for restoring woodlands where up to 750 million of the insects spend their winters. |
| Where the Monarchs Hang in Mexico by Silvia Uribe – Santa Barbara Independent 9/27/09 |
Here in Goleta, as most know, we have a monarch sanctuary, officially known as the Coronado Butterfly Preserve, on the Ellwood Mesa, close to the bluffs. |
| Butterfly antennas key to navigating in migration by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID – AP 9/24/09 |
Millions of Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico for the winter and scientists have long speculated on how the insects find their way. Turns out, their antennas are the key. How do we know? Well, researchers painted butterfly antennas black, and the insects got lost |
| Butterflies hit by damp summers by Sarah Mukherjee – BBC News 8 April 2009 |
The torrential rain of recent summers has hit the UK butterfly population hard, say conservationists. |
| British butterfly’s comeback gives hope for threatened species – University of York News and Events 25 February 2009 |
New research shows the importance of habitat conservation in helping threatened species to survive environmental change. |
| Fending for Fender’s blue butterfly by Shanna Woodruff – The Daily Barometer 2/20/09 |
Willamette Valley is only location housing remainder of species |
| Britain’s prodigal butterfly has returned after over 50 years – NowPublic.com Jan 6, 2009 |
The large tortoiseshell butterfly has returned to Britain after a long absence according to some wildlife observers. |
| Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism Jan 1, 2009 |
As early warning indicators of environmental change, butterflies are a valuable tool to assess overall climate change impact and to provide some indication on the chances to come nearer to the target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 set by the EU Heads of State in 2001. |
| European Grassland Butterfly Indicator – European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism Jan 2, 2009 | The European Grassland Butterfly Indicator shows the population trend of butterflies which are characteristic of grasslands. Since 1990 the European Grassland Butterfly Indicator shows a strong negative trend and has declined by almost 60%. |
| Speedy butterfly evolution astonishes scientists - ABC News July 13, 2007 |
A team of international researchers has found that butterflies on a South Pacific island quickly developed genetic defences when they faced extinction from a parasitic bacteria. |
| Butterfly Evolves Leg Up on Male-Killing Parasite by Mason Inman – National Geographic News July 12, 2007 |
The continuing battle between a butterfly and the bacteria that nearly wiped out all the insect species’ males has taken a sudden and unexpected turn. |
| Pollinating Wyoming by Hannah Wiest – Casper Star Tribune May 25, 2007 | Three monarch butterfly way stations were constructed at the Trails Center in Casper, Wyoming |
| Monarch Gardens Installed at National Historic Trails Interpretive Center May 24, 2007 |
The pollinator garden was planted to help protect the biodiversity of local pollinators to give us the chance to see butterflies, bees, hummingbirds and other friendly fauna. |
| Enhancing Pollinator Populations in Restored Prairie Habitats – Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie – 2007 Accomplishments |
Restoring native habitats, such as tallgrass prairie, requires more than plants; reconstruction of a complete ecosystem requires all the elements, including pollinators. Without proper pollinators, many native wildflowers will fail to reproduce. |
| Groups Move to Protect Great Basin Dunes Butterfly and Habitat by Carol Goldberg – Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility January 5, 2006 |
SACRAMENTO – Responding to an environmental emergency in the Great Basin Desert, a coalition of conservation groups today had to file a lawsuit against the Bush Interior Department for failing to consider protection of the Sand Mountain blue butterfly, an endemic species on the Sand Mountain Dunes on U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands east of Fallon, Nevada. |
| English butterflies flutter north – The Scotsman 22 Jul 2006 | THE UK’s butterflies are taking refuge in Scotland as climate change forces them to seek more hospitable climes, it has been claimed. |
| Save a butterfly, grow honeysuckle – The Guardian July 22, 2006 | The dire state of Britain’s butterfly species is revealed in a report today that highlights the counties where their decline is most marked. |
| UK butterfly species down to 56 – BBC News 22 July 2006 | Only 56 butterfly species now remain in Britain as others have fallen victim to disappearing habitat, a charity says. |
| England’s butterflies “increasingly at risk” - DEFRA MAR 2, 2006 |
England’s butterflies are increasingly at risk, with the number of farmland butterflies declining by 30 per cent during the last ten years, according to a study released by Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight today. |
| Helping hand for endangered butterfly by Richard Savill – Telegraph.co.uk June 23, 2006 |
More than 1,500 hand-reared heath fritillary butterflies have been reintroduced into their former natural habitat. |
| Butterfly conservation project in progress by Stanislav P. Abadjiev – Lepidopterology.com 24 June 2006 |
A large-scale project on the butterfly habitats conservation in Bulgaria is under way. |
| Tropical Andean butterfly diversity project by Stanislav P. Abadjiev – Lepidopterology.com 17 July 2006 |
A large-scale project on the tropical Andean butterfly diversity is under way. It is an international collaboration among scientists, institutions and organisations involved in research on the butterflies of the tropical Andean region. |
| Littlest Butterfly – Discover December 2005 |
The Sinai baton blue butterfly, with a wingspan no wider than a thumbnail, may seem like an insignificant creature. It lives only on mountainside patches of wild thyme in an arid corner of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt called Saint Katherine’s Protectorate. But a pair of British scientists think it may be the perfect model for how vulnerable animals will go extinct in the face of rising temperatures. |
| Rising from the ashes: rare butterfly makes comeback following fire at nature reserve – Wildlife Trust Press News 12 July, 2006 |
A colony of rare silver-studded blue butterflies appears to have re-established at Broadmoor Bottom, a nature reserve managed by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust |
| Climate change in action? Rare butterfly makes appearance – Wildlife Trust Press News 30 June, 2006 |
Eagle-eyed Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust Conservation Trainees spotted a rare Adonis Blue butterfly at the Trust’s Buttler’s Hangings Nature Reserve near High Wycombe in Bucks last week. The last and only recorded sighting of this species on the reserve was in 1979. |
| Atala butterfly - News-Press.com July 16, 2006 |
The distinctive red, black and blue colors of the now-rare atala butterfly, a native of southeast Florida, are not distinctive enough to confirm it as a native to Southwest Florida, where its cultivated appearance at the Calusa Nature Center two years ago caused something of a lepidopteran stir. |
| Public Input Sought on Plan to Conserve Endangered Butterfly In Northern Indiana – US Fish & Wildlife Service Sep 22, 2005 |
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public input on a draft plan to conserve the endangered Karner blue butterfly as part of a ?Safe Harbor Agreement.? A plan submitted by The Nature Conservancy for restoration activities for the butterfly is available for public comment, along with an application by TNC for an enhancement of survival permit. |
| British butterfly popuation is decreasing - PhysOrg News 7/18/05 |
Britain is losing a large portion of its butterfly population, with 7 of 10 species declining during the past 25 years, the Independent reported Monday. |
| Butterfly Monitoring Data May Save Butterflies from Spray – Chicago Wilderness Magazine Spring 2005 |
A December meeting of groups discussing gypsy moth control in Illinois left conservationists from the Butterfly Monitoring Network (BMN) hopeful that the state will be able to use a benign alternative to the bacterial treatment it has been using to check the spread of gypsy moths. |
| Butterfly escapes endangered species net - High Country News 1/24/05 |
New Mexico community creates its own conservation plan |
| Will Climate Change Depose Monarchs? – Science News for Kids 3/19/2003 | If you’ve ever seen a flock of migrating monarch butterflies, you’re one of the lucky ones. Fifty years from now, your memory might be all that’s left of the flapping beauties. A computer analysis suggests that some populations of monarch butterflies could die out in North America if the weather in Mexico changes. |
| Extinctions Could Have Domino Effect, Study Says by James Owen for National Geographic News 9/9/2004 |
Findings suggested that the number of extinct butterfly species in Singapore increased in line with the number of extinct plants. |
| Butterfly Restoration Project Launches with Big Grant from BP – Chicago Wilderness Magazine 1/4/2003 |
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| Endangered Butterfly Lives Where Fire, Damage Abound – NC State University 11/13/2002 |
It’s a paradox of nature: An artillery impact zone on the grounds of Fort Bragg, N.C. – an area so dangerous that only a select few are allowed to enter – is also the home of North Carolina’s only endangered butterfly. |
| Extreme Climate Variance Sped Extinction Of Local Butterfly Populations, Researchers Say – Science daily 5/15/2002 |
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| Green Farming Schemes are Helping Englands Butterflies – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 8/6/2002 |
New research conducted by Butterfly Conservation has revealed that the Government’s agri-environment schemes are helping to slow – and in some cases reverse – the long-term decline in numbers of England’s rarer butterfly species. |
| Moths of the Nettle Patch | Some of the moths you might come across in your local nettle patch. |
| Butterflies of the Nettle Patch | Many of our most common and well-known butterflies depend on nettles for the growth of their larvae. |
| On Wings and a Prayer: Habitat May be Marked Critical for Bay Checkerspot Butterflies by Michael McCabe - San Francisco Chronicle Nov 4, 2000 |
Under pressure from environmental groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to designate more than 26,000 acres in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties as critical habitat for the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly. |
| Off the Record by Marcy de Garimore – Beach Gazette, Paso Robles, CA June 28, 2000 |
The efforts of Sheila Boone to protect the vanishing habitat of the western monarchs |
| Where Have All the Butterflies Gone? by John Bowen – Adobe Press, Nipomo, CA Oct 20, 2000 |
The habitat of the Western Monarch has been reduced to eight groves of trees; the monarchs desperately need our help! |
| Butterfly Palace Needs Help to Fly by Bob Behme – Five Cities Gazette, Arroyo Grande, CA Sept 13, 2000 |
Butterfly Palace is seeking to preserve the vanishing habitat of the Western Monarch |
| For Endangered Butterfly, Golf Courses to Provide Essential Habitat by Aaron Hoover – University of Florida News Nov 30, 1999 |
UFL researchers work with 2 large golf courses to re-create tropical hardwood hammock for corridor between breeding colonies of rare Schaus Swallowtail butterflies. |
| Insect Coloration and Implications for Conservation by Tonya Van Hook – Forida Entomologist |
Implications of conspicuous coloration |
| Elliott Key’s Endangered Swallowtail by Andrei Sourakov – California Wild Magazine |
Fascinating account of conservation efforts to save Schaus’ Swallowtail butterfly on Florida’s Elliott’s Key |
| Central America’s Largest Virgin Rainforest to be Imminently Threatened – Native Forest Network Eastern North America Resource Center May 97 |
A bilateral delegation of US. and Nicaraguan environmental activists recently returned from the Atlantic Coast with alarming information. |
| Butterfly Palace is More Than Pie-in-the-Sky Dream to Grover Woman by Carol Roberts – Telegram-Tribune July 98 |
Watching western Monarch butterflies winter in a serene eucalyptus grove in Pismo Beach makes Sheila Boone want to preserve, protect and share what’s left of the Central Coast’s special history and environment. |
| Despite Obstacles, Sheila Boone Continues in Her Efforts to Create a Haven for Wintering Monarchs by Tom Murphy – Santa Maria Times |
Last year Sheila Boone of Grover Beach embarked on her life’s journey to create a Butterfly Palace on the Central Coast as a tribute to her late husband. |
| Longs Drugs to Help Grover Woman Raise Money for Butterfly Palace by Michael Yparrea – Five Cities Times-Press Recorder Dec 98 |
To help promote a Grover each woman’s efforts to build a butterfly conservatory and preserve dwindling butterfly preserves, a local pharmacy is going straight to the source. |
| Two Butterflies, Hanging on in Southern California, to be Added to Endangered Species List Jan 97 |
The Laguna Mountains skipper and quino checkerspot, two species of butterflies in severe decline as their Southern California habitat disappears, will be added to the federal endangered species list |
| Butterfly Feels Effect of Global Warming by Robert Lee Hotz – The Los Angeles Times |
In what experts are calling the first direct biological consequence of global warming, a delicate species of butterfly is being driven north through California to escape rising temperatures. |
| Danger to Western U.S. Lepidopteras by Ken Philip |
Dangers of the USDA’s plan to spray Gypchek to fight gypsy moths |
| Government Destruction of Butterflies by Rick Mikula |
The USDA is planning to use broad spectrum spraying of the lepidotericide B.t. |
| The Montes Azules Biosphere Preserve | Located between the Guatemalan border and the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas, Mexico, lies a tract of unprotected rainforest in danger of disappearing. This region bordering the Biosphere Reserve now has a chance at survival thanks to a series of conservation efforts established by Montes Azules. |
| NY’s Largest Endangered Atlantic White Cedar to be Destroyed by Denis Castelli |
Atlantic White Cedar / Chamaecyparis Thyoides is on New York State’s list of endangered trees. |
| THE SPECIAL BIOSPHERE RESERVE “RÍA CELESTÚN”, Yucatan, Mexico – Eco Paraiso Hotel, Celestun, Yucatan, Mexico |
The Celestun Wildlife Refuge is the main feeding area for the American Flamingo and countless species of waterfowl and shorebirds. |
| Snags and Downed Trees are Good Habitat for Wildlife by Dan Edge – Oregon State University Extension Service Nov 14, 1997 |
Wildlife enthusiasts, especially in rural areas, might want to leave some of the newly-killed fallen material for wildlife habitat. |