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After a 150-year absence, 750 of the aptly-named large blue butterflies have successfully emerged from their cocoons to repopulate parts of their historic habitat in South West England.
Most conservation dollars don’t get past elephants, pandas, and tigers, but English biologists—notoriously proud and connected to the natural life on their island—needed only five years to begin repopulating part of the country with the largest of England’s nine blue butterfly species: an unmistakable creature thanks to the row of black spots on its upper forewings.
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Large Blue Butterflies Were Extinct in England, But Now Those Beauties Are Back After 150 Years
Most conservation dollars don’t get past elephants, pandas, and tigers, but English biologists—notoriously proud and connected to the natural life on their island—needed only five years to begin repopulating part of the country with the largest of England’s nine blue butterfly species: an unmistakable creature thanks to the row of black spots on its upper forewings.
Continued below.
Large Blue Butterflies Were Extinct in England, But Now Those Beauties Are Back After 150 Years
