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Category Archives: endangered species
In Defense of Plants: Butterflies in a Changing World
This week’s drop of a new podcast from In Defense of Plants (a terrific weekly listen if you don’t already know it) features University of Arizona’s Katy Prudic (an eButterfly co-director) as she discusses work she has been doing with … Continue reading
A banner year for Northern Metalmarks
We just wrapped up the 2022 NABA annual count for Green Ridge State Forest this past weekend; after a soggy cold front washed out our original date of July 9 we were very happy with a glorious Sunday in the … Continue reading
Monarch Populations are Thriving in North America
That’s the headline out of a new study published this week in the journal Global Change Biology, upending decades of handwringing and dire predictions about the fate of US Monarch populations. Co-authored by Andy Davis of the University of Georgia, … Continue reading
Brown Elfin: A Species in Peril in MD?
A number of lycaenids are species of conservation concern in MD and the mid-Atlantic — King’s Hairstreak, Frosted Elfin, Appalachian Azure, Edwards’ Hairstreak, and others. But until relatively recently I would not have counted Brown Elfin (Callophrys augustinus) among them. … Continue reading
Schaus’ Swallowtails on the Rebound
For the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the Florida Park Service have trekked diligently through forest preserves on Key Largo in search of the federally endangered Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly, more often than not coming back with … Continue reading
A Cautionary Tale About Insect Apocalypse
It’s all the media rage just now, a rather modest metadata study that warns rather immodestly of an impending collapse of all insect populations within the next (human) generation. Stories about Armageddons are hard for reporters to resist, even good … Continue reading
Monarch Declines NOT Connected to Herbicides/GMOs
The standard orthodoxy for declines in Monarch butterfly populations is that the rise of GMO crops (especially soybeans) bred for resistance to herbicides allowed for saturation spraying of herbicides (especially Roundup) in the upper Midwest that knocked back milkweed abundance … Continue reading
Northern Metalmark Data for MD Needed
Jen Selfridge of the Maryland DNR has the following request for information on recent distribution records in MD for Northern Metalmark, Calephelis borealis. We know this species primarily (if not entirely in recent years) from shale outcrops in the … Continue reading
Butterflies of North Carolina: 25th Approximation
Harry LeGrand and Tom Howard made quick work of getting out the annual new approximation of butterfly status and range in North Carolina, captured in the release today of the 25th Approximation [beating even their projected completion date of March … Continue reading
Milkweed not the solution for Monarch declines
I’ve talked with a number of you about this recent research from Cornell; I wanted to make you all aware of this paper (that I’ve been aware of for about a year as it worked its way through the peer … Continue reading
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