Karner Blue

The Karner Blue, Lycaeides melissa samuelis, is a small, blue butterfly found in small areas of New Jersey, the Great Lakes region, and eastern upstate New York. The butterfly, whose lifecycle depends on the wild blue lupine flower, is classified as endangered. Local conservation efforts, concentrating on replanting large areas of blue lupine which have been lost to development (and to fire suppression, which destroys the open, sandy habitat required by blue lupine), are having modest success at encouraging the butterfly's repopulation.

Related Topics:
Butterfly - New Jersey - Great Lakes - New York - Blue lupine - Endangered

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