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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/02/2022 21:53, Dana, Robert (DNR)
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cite="mid:DM6PR09MB5909967A593739DD2FA5B47EB02E9@DM6PR09MB5909.namprd09.prod.outlook.com"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D">. She presented three
stories of work she has been involved in aimed at averting
extirpation/extinction of butterfly taxa--Strymon acis bartrami,
Neomympha mitchellii francisci, and Speyeria zerene hippolyta.
All three are habitat specialists whose habitats we have nearly
eliminated, with the remnant fragments widely scattered. A
crucial aspect of the decline in these butterfly populations,
besides the direct destruction of habitat, is the elimination of
landscape-scale dynamics that produced and maintained these
habitats.</span></blockquote>
<p>There is an interesting paper on the hairstreak here
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-the-lepidopterists-society/volume-64/issue-3/lepi.v64i3.a4/Notes-on-the-Status-and-Ecology-of-Strymon-acis-bartrami/10.18473/lepi.v64i3.a4.full">https://bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-the-lepidopterists-society/volume-64/issue-3/lepi.v64i3.a4/Notes-on-the-Status-and-Ecology-of-Strymon-acis-bartrami/10.18473/lepi.v64i3.a4.full</a></p>
<p>It is one gorgeous butterfly. I am reminded of William Beebe's
famous words on extinction. :-</p>
<p>"<em>The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived,
though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished
harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last
individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another
heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be
again."</em></p>
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