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Was the elegy misguided?
The Xerces status as a distinct species, as opposed to being a sub-population of another non-extinct butterfly, has been questioned by some for decades.
In a new study published in Biology Letters, researchers at the Field Museum were able to put a definitive end to those doubts, confirming that the Xerces blue was indeed a unique species, albeit one now also confirmed as extinct.
“It’s interesting to reaffirm that what people have been thinking for nearly 100 years is true, that this was a species driven to extinction by human activities,” said Felix Grewe, co-director of the Field’s Grainger Bioinformatics Center and the lead author of the Biology Letters paper on the project.
Tips for Watching and Photographing Butterflies
Watching butterflies is a delight at any age, but finding them can be a challenge. Get tips to make butterfly watching easy and fun.
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You don’t have to be a scientist to enjoy watching butterflies. (By the way, did you know that people who study them are called lepidopterists?) Butterfly watching has caught on as a hobby in recent decades, and it’s not hard to see why. You don’t have to spend much time in the backyard before you’ll notice them flitting about. And with more than 650 species in the U.S. alone, there’s a good chance you’ll see something new and interesting.
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Anyone who paid attention in their high school English class likely has some familiarity with “The Hero’s Journey.” It’s the template for most storytelling, wherein a hero goes on an adventure, is victorious (or sometimes fails) and comes home changed by it. But for
Robert Michael Pyle, a real-life hero’s journey took place in 1995 when this accomplished lepidopterist set out on a 30-day trek through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest also known as “the dark divide,” famously known as Bigfoot country a place where tourists flock every year hoping to catch a glimpse of the famous sasquatch. Pyle received a Guggenheim grant to document butterflies and moths, which he did while still trying to process the trauma of the death of his wife from the ravages of cancer, chronicling it all in his book,
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