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Rare Butterfly Rediscovered in Maine
Animals  (tags: animals, butterfly, rare animals, Rediscovered )

Katie
- 33 days ago - planetsave.com
The Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly species was identified in September by Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department biologists. 1934 was the last Maine sighting of the butterfly. The recent finding was in the hardwood swamps of Berwick and Wells.
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Butterfly Proboscis to Sip Cells
Animals  (tags: Butterfly, Proboscis, Straw )

Nancy
- 35 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender, and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University.
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Queen of Spain Fritillary Butterfly Breeding in Sussex
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, butterfly, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 55 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A rare migrant butterfly from Europe, the Queen of Spain Fritillary, 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
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Rare Migrant Butterfly Establishes Breeding Colony in UK
Animals  (tags: migration, endangered, butterfly, breeding colony )

Simone
- 63 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The Queen of Spain fritillary, a rare migrant butterfly from Europe, appears to be trying to establish a breeding colony on England's south coast as climate change pushes the species north.
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Rare Butterfly Making a Flying Comeback
Animals  (tags: animals, butterfly, endangered, environment, habitat, humans, protection )

Maria
- 112 days ago - somersetcountygazette.co.uk
ONE of Britain's most endangered butterflies has seen an unexpected surge in numbers across Exmoor and Dartmoor this summer. The marsh fritillary was once widespread in Britain and Ireland but has declined severely over the 20th Century,
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Silver Studded Blue Butterfly Found on Devon Reserve for First Time in 20 Years
Animals  (tags: butterfly, rare, discovered, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 146 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Devon Wildlife Trust (DWT) has found rare silver studded blue butterflies on its Bystock nature reserve, near Exmouth, for the first time in 20 years.
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Programme to Bring Back Endangered Butterfly Launched
Animals  (tags: butterfly, preservation, conservation, programme, ecxtinction, populations, habitat )

Simone
- 167 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The butterfly has seen the biggest drop of all UK butterflies in recent years, with numbers down 80 per cent since the 1980s to just 35 surviving colonies. A £430,000 project aims to bring back the butterfly by preserving habitat in its last stronghold
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Major New Project Launch to Save Rare Small Blue Butterfly
Animals  (tags: animals, butterfly, protection, small blue, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 195 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A major project is underway to help save one of Britain's rarest butterflies. Britain's smallest butterfly, the Small Blue is in drastic decline due to the loss of its chalk and limestone grassland habitat. Warwickshire (and the West Midlands now only
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Large Blue Butterfly Flutters Back From Extinction, Thanks to a Tiny Ant
Animals  (tags: animals, butterfly, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 196 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
One of the most beautiful butterflies in the world has been successfully reintroduced to Britain 30 years after it became extinct, thanks to a tiny red ant.
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Zoo Raises Endangered Butterflies for Release Into the Wild
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, butterfly, environment )

Maria
- 272 days ago - katu.com
For the fourth year in a row, the Oregon Zoo's butterfly conservation lab has successfully reared Taylor's checkerspot larvae, making significant progress in the effort to save this endangered Northwest butterfly.
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Rescue Bid to Save Butterfly
Animals  (tags: animals, butterfly, endangered, environment, humans, protection )

Maria
- 279 days ago - abc.net.au
An intensive conservation effort is underway to save an endangered Tasmanian butterfly. Wasps are pushing the ptunarra brown butterfly to extinction. It is not as famous as the tasmanian devil or the wedge-tailed eagle
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New Grant to Boost High Brown Fritillary Butterfly Numbers in Cumbria
Animals  (tags: butterfly, recovery, insect, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 294 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Britain's most threatened butterfly is being offered a helping hand to recovery in the Morecambe Bay and South Cumbria area, thanks to a grant boost from the Forestry Commission's English Woodland Grant Scheme. The Morecambe Bay Limestone area and the
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Myanmar to Build First Butterfly Park in Border Town
Animals  (tags: animals, butterfly, environment, humans, protection )

Maria
- 325 days ago - mathaba.net
Similar to Singapore's, the park at Putao will have some 1,500 butterflies and insects of over 50 spices.
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Wildflower Auto Tag Sales Pay for Butterfly Gardens and Science Projects
Animals  (tags: butterfly, wildflower, interesting, GoodNews, society, research, scientists, discovery, environment, green, conservation )

Kim
- 359 days ago - miamiherald.com
Bright red spikes of salvia flowers swayed in the winter breeze next to blue-flowering porterweed. Yellowtops, with flattish clusters of flowers, were forming a little colony, while the black-eyed
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New Species Found in Vietnam's Green Corridor
Animals  (tags: animals, vietnam, green corridor, new species, orchid, snake, butterfly, discovery, wwf )

Cissy
- 824 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
A raft of new species of animals and plants has been found by scientists in a remote area of Vietnam. They include two butterflies, a snake, five orchids and three other types of plant.
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