Thursday, January 18, 2018

Bringing Back A Butterfly



For the first time in nearly a decade, Dakota skippers are back at The Nature Conservancy’s Hole-in-the-Mountain Prairie preserve in Minnesota. In the first-ever reintroduction of this federally-threatened species, the Minnesota Zoo released more than 150 butterflies that had been bred in captivity onto the preserve in the summer of 2017.

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