Masculus - Marin promunturia
Quasi tot animalium aliud urbana, Missionis Lorem Butterfly (Plebejus icarioides missionensis) Graviter in discrimen adducta est, quae est. Et hoc parum hyacintho vitam in parva fragmenta habitat iuxta progressum in multi-million pupa, et San Francisco circa Bay. A saeculum ante hoc papilio iam incipiens ad declines, Cum centuriones acras pulchrae maris morphing in SPARAWL. Hodie in maritimum sapienti fruticum fruticumque fere evanuit et quod modicum manet infestat cum Psidium plantarum et animalibus.
Missionis hyacintho est unus ex prima animalia enumerantur in periculo speciei actum, acchieving offical praesidium in 1976. Nisus super ultimum paucos annos focused in restituit habitat et caeruleum in eo – cum limitata success. Ante 2009 Ultima hyacintho vidi in civitate fines erat in Didymus iuga in 1997 (et fortasse in MCMLXX est ante). Hodie SF Recreation et Parks Department una cum Bay natura habet aliquantum re-statutum est Missionis hyacintho in Didymus Pila de Salubrius populorum in Marin Headlands et San Bruno Mountain (Solum aliis locis in papilio notum est ex). Credo annum quod circum 30 hominum volantem in Didymus iugis. Hoc anno numero sunt, Sed Veneris invenerunt tres feminos ovipositing in lupin – Dum haec feminas probabiliter transplantare paucis weeks ago, Est spes in posterum. Infeliciter tantum masculini vidi erant in Marin Headlands – Et votis masculi visa in Didymus iuga hoc anno (pendente 2011 notitia).
Non mirum, Vertit ex ut reinttroducing a speciebus est a complicated ludum. Missionis hyacintho utilizes tres hospes lupin species, Lupinus Albifrons, formys et Variicolor. Sed maintaining haec patria speciei inter invasives requirit radicitus mensuras inter graviter applications de herbicides (in faeniculi, Pampas herba et Gallica iurgam – sed comprehendo 136 Alii Psidium plantis (Maria Flora)). Est ignotum quod effectus herbicides habent in developing larvae (tantum 17% victoria de ovum ad bruchus) aut quid agit ad patria formica populos, qui tendunt in bruchus de hyacintho. Sine patria formicae et bruchus es multo magis verisimile predari, Sed etiam formicae incident ad invadendum ARGENTINUS formicae. Et tamen aliud key ludio ludius est a nuper found fungus quod est occidere lupin plantis – populandum papilionem numeris in 2010.
Si conferas haec subspecies aliis membris in icarioides complex est percutiens differentia. Plebejus i. moroensis De Central oram est incredibili abundanti papilio in bonum habitat. Est maxime restricted, Sed non adversus fere difficultatibus Missionis hyacintho est. Teneo spem unum de ultimo San Francisco Agnus – si In Psidium species potest esse imperium – Eam non ire viam Xerces.
collocaverunt femina - Didymus iuga SF
(More images inferius)
Same female - Didymus iuga SF
Aberrant male - Marin promunturia
Deformed male - Marin promunturia
This deformed male was found in the middle of a trail and could barely fly (see the curled right forewing). I attempted to move it off the trail when it crawled on my hand. Alioquin, I do not recommend ever handling endangered species!
And most importantly, special thanks to Liam O’Brien from Nature in the City for guiding me to these localities!
Great Post 😀
thought you might like my machinima film the butterfly’s tale~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1fO8SxQs-E
Bright Blessings
elf ~
You have to wonder what effect the herbicides are having on these restoration efforts. San Francisco’s Natural Areas Program applied herbicides 69 times in the so-called “natural areas”in 2010. Herbicides were applied 16 times on Twin Peaks where the Mission Blue is being reintroduced.
The herbicide used most often is Garlon, categorized by San Francisco’s IPM program as “Most Hazardous” and by the EPA as a “Hazardous Chemical.” The Material Safety Data Sheet mandated by the EPA says that Garlon is “highly toxic” to aquatic life and “mildly toxic” to birds.
Why not set up a control area where no herbicides are used to see if the success rate of the reintroductions might be more successful? Too complicated we’re told. This isn’t science. This is scatter shot with the lives of rare butterflies.
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