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This butterfly went extinct. That’s not the end of the story.
So this spring, the California Academy of Sciences ... Their analysis revealed that a relatively common butterfly called the silvery blue is a close relative. So the team searched for silvery ...
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SAVING THE SMITH'S BLUE BUTTERFLY
The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...
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California’s monarch butterfly population plummets; fire wipes out Topanga habitat
The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign for the future of the beloved ...