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*Real Green Win: Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly Protected Habitat Doubles* - Conservation 4/30/10	Endangered Dragonfly Now Protected in Missouri and Michigan National Forests; New Habitat Added in Door County and other parts of of Wisconsin.
*Some good news about biodiversity* by Dr PHILIPPA TOMLINSON - Isle of Man Today 4/20/10	A recent report published by the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society by Garry Curtis shows an increase in the number of butterfly species to be seen on the Island.
*Popular butterfly habitat destroyed* - The Star Online (Indonesia) 1/6/10	Workers who removed the historical Gopeng pipeline for scrap metal have destroyed the largest site for Rajah Brooke butterflies in Ulu Geroh, a major tourist attraction. All that remains of the salt lick, where the butterflies used to congregate in the thousands to sip water rich in minerals, is now just muddy ground.
*Emerging from the cocoon* by Chen Dujuan - Global Times 1/4/10	Beijing's first butterfly garden is holding test operations and will open officially in May 2010 in Beijing's suburban Shunyi district.Occupying an area of over 650,000 square meters and home to more than half a million butterflies, it is the largest butterfly garden in Asia.
*Queen of Spain Fritillary breeds on Sussex Coast* - Surfbird News 11/1/09	A rare migrant butterfly from Europe appears to be attempting to establish a colony in Britain. The Queen of Spain Fritillary butterfly 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 change.
*Group Goes to Bat for Silverspot Butterfly* by SONYA ANGELICA DIEHN - San Mateo (California) Courthouse News Service 10/29/09	Development threatens one of last remaining callipe silverspot butterfly populations, environmentalists say. The endangered butterfly depends upon a single plant species to survive - the yellow pansy - and a San Bruno Mountain housing complex would drastically reduce a vital corridor for the insect, San Bruno Mountain Watch says.
*Vanishing Butterflies Flutter Closer to Endangered Species Act Protection* by Jonathan Evans - Center for Biological Diversity 10/26/09	Through a legal settlement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Center for Biological Diversity, the Obama administration will reconsider protection for two of Southern California’s rarest butterflies, the Hermes copper and Thorne’s hairstreak. The settlement agreement, which was approved by the court late Friday afternoon, requires the agency to decide again whether the butterflies should be considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
*Beetle Infestation Threatens Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary* - Earthweek 10/23/09	Environmental officials in Mexico are battling an unprecedented beetle infestation that threatens to destroy the forests of the monarch butterfly’s winter home.
*Checkerspot butterfly next on endangered list?* by Peter Fimrite - San Francisco Chronicle 10/21/09	The federal government recommended that a rare 2-inch butterfly that once fluttered over much of the Bay Area and now lives only in Santa Clara County be designated an endangered species.
*Dragonflies return to land of Henry VIII* by Rebecca Connop Price 10/15/09	DRAGONFLIES are thriving in the nature reserves surrounding Yateley, Sandhurst and Crowthorne, according to the Forestry Commission.
*Developer bulldozes butterfly habitat on San Bruno Mountain* by Julia Scott - San Mateo County Times 10/5/09	A developer bulldozed an area containing endangered butterfly habitat on San Bruno Mountain last week, catching city officials off-guard and enraging environmentalists who plan to file a lawsuit to prevent the company from preparing the land for homes to be built.
*Nebraska man helps butterfly migration* by Trisha Schulz - World-Herald News Service 10/4/09	From mid-August through October, it's monarch madness for Eugene Young of Plainview, Neb. Young volunteers as part of the University of Kansas' Monarch Watch, tagging hundreds of butterflies as the distinctive insects flit through the Midwest on their way to central Mexico to roost for the winter.
*Lakeshore among 25 most endangered parks* by Deborah Sederberg - The News-Dispatch 10/3/09	MICHIGAN CITY - A tiny blue butterfly about the size of a quarter may be a local harbinger of the threat of warmer climes to come - or maybe not.
*Dragonflies Go Thirsty in The Mediterranean* - News Blaze 9/29/09	One fifth of Mediterranean dragonflies and damselflies are threatened with extinction at the regional level as a result of increasing freshwater scarcity, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
*Butterfly mystery* by BRIAN NEARING - Times Union, Albany, NY 10/1/09	It's been 17 years since the tiny Karner blue butterfly, a resident and symbol of rare inland pine barrens in the Capital Region, went on the federal endangered species list. Now, despite years of efforts to save the butterflies, including the creation of a 3,000-acre preserve in Albany County to protect their habitat, their numbers continue to dwindle.
*Butterfly habitat agreement signed* by Mike Lee - SignOnSanDiego.com 10/1/09	After spending two decades trying to protect monarch butterflies, the leader of an Escondido-based nonprofit group yesterday joined officials from Mexico and California to launch a plan for restoring woodlands where up to 750 million of the insects spend their winters.
*Where the Monarchs Hang in Mexico* by Silvia Uribe - Santa Barbara Independent 9/27/09	Here in Goleta, as most know, we have a monarch sanctuary, officially known as the Coronado Butterfly Preserve, on the Ellwood Mesa, close to the bluffs.
*Butterfly antennas key to navigating in migration* by RANDOLPH E. SCHMID - AP 9/24/09	Millions of Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico for the winter and scientists have long speculated on how the insects find their way. Turns out, their antennas are the key. How do we know? Well, researchers painted butterfly antennas black, and the insects got lost
*Butterflies hit by damp summers* by Sarah Mukherjee - BBC News 8 April 2009	The torrential rain of recent summers has hit the UK butterfly population hard, say conservationists.
*British butterfly’s comeback gives hope for threatened species* - University of York News and Events 25 February 2009	New research shows the importance of habitat conservation in helping threatened species to survive environmental change.
*Fending for Fender's blue butterfly* by Shanna Woodruff - The Daily Barometer 2/20/09	Willamette Valley is only location housing remainder of species
*Britain's prodigal butterfly has returned after over 50 years* - NowPublic.com Jan 6, 2009	The large tortoiseshell butterfly has returned to Britain after a long absence according to some wildlife observers.
*Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies* - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism Jan 1, 2009	As early warning indicators of environmental change, butterflies are a valuable tool to assess overall climate change impact and to provide some indication on the chances to come nearer to the target of halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 set by the EU Heads of State in 2001.
*European Grassland Butterfly Indicator* - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism Jan 2, 2009	The European Grassland Butterfly Indicator shows the population trend of butterflies which are characteristic of grasslands. Since 1990 the European Grassland Butterfly Indicator shows a strong negative trend and has declined by almost 60%.
*Speedy butterfly evolution astonishes scientists* - ABC News July 13, 2007	A team of international researchers has found that butterflies on a South Pacific island quickly developed genetic defences when they faced extinction from a parasitic bacteria.
*Butterfly Evolves Leg Up on Male-Killing Parasite* by Mason Inman - National Geographic News July 12, 2007	The continuing battle between a butterfly and the bacteria that nearly wiped out all the insect species' males has taken a sudden and unexpected turn.
*Pollinating Wyoming* by Hannah Wiest - Casper Star Tribune May 25, 2007	Three monarch butterfly way stations were constructed at the Trails Center in Casper, Wyoming
*Monarch Gardens Installed at National Historic Trails Interpretive Center* May 24, 2007	The pollinator garden was planted to help protect the biodiversity of local pollinators to give us the chance to see butterflies, bees, hummingbirds and other friendly fauna.
*Enhancing Pollinator Populations in Restored Prairie Habitats - Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie - 2007 Accomplishments*	Restoring native habitats, such as tallgrass prairie, requires more than plants; reconstruction of a complete ecosystem requires all the elements, including pollinators. Without proper pollinators, many native wildflowers will fail to reproduce.
*Groups Move to Protect Great Basin Dunes Butterfly and Habitat* by Carol Goldberg - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility January 5, 2006	SACRAMENTO – Responding to an environmental emergency in the Great Basin Desert, a coalition of conservation groups today had to file a lawsuit against the Bush Interior Department for failing to consider protection of the Sand Mountain blue butterfly, an endemic species on the Sand Mountain Dunes on U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) public lands east of Fallon, Nevada.
*English butterflies flutter north* - The Scotsman 22 Jul 2006	THE UK's butterflies are taking refuge in Scotland as climate change forces them to seek more hospitable climes, it has been claimed.
*Save a butterfly, grow honeysuckle* - The Guardian July 22, 2006	The dire state of Britain's butterfly species is revealed in a report today that highlights the counties where their decline is most marked.
*UK butterfly species down to 56* - BBC News 22 July 2006	Only 56 butterfly species now remain in Britain as others have fallen victim to disappearing habitat, a charity says.
*England's butterflies "increasingly at risk"* - DEFRA MAR 2, 2006	England’s butterflies are increasingly at risk, with the number of farmland butterflies declining by 30 per cent during the last ten years, according to a study released by Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight today.
*Helping hand for endangered butterfly* by Richard Savill - Telegraph.co.uk June 23, 2006	More than 1,500 hand-reared heath fritillary butterflies have been reintroduced into their former natural habitat.