[Pollinator] Lending a helping hand to the Lange's Metalmark

[Dolores_Savignano at fws.gov]

Hi!  Check out the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service homepage (www.fws.gov) .
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Captive Breeding used to Boost Declining Population of Lange's Metalmark
Butterfly at Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge
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September 11, 2008


In August biologists from Moorpark College, The Urban Wildlands Group, and
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released adults and caterpillars of the
Lange's metalmark butterfly to increase their numbers at Antioch Dunes
National Wildlife Refuge. Antioch Dunes NWR is the only place on earth
where the Lange's Metalmark Butterfly exists. The release was the
culmination of a successful captive breeding program that began last year
when monitoring found dangerously low numbers of the Lange's metalmark
butterfly two years in a row. The breeding program is part of a two-pronged
effort to save the species.


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Dolores Savignano, Ph.D.
Restoration Coordinator
Division of Environmental Quality
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 North Fairfax Drive, Rm. 820
Arlington, VA 22203
telephone: (703) 358-1864
fax: (703) 358-1800
e-mail: dolores_savignano at fws.gov
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