Oregon has given proof that efforts like ours can work; the successful campaign to save Fenders Blues by planting meadowrules seeds of the endangered Kincaid Saxifrage shows. America has a love affair with Monarch Butterflies sponsored by massive plantings of milkweed (e.g., Kiosk 1’s Milkweed for Monarchs, native to eastern areas); Kiosk 10 has had a huge hatches of Red Admirals. We’ve also seen hatches of Swallowtails, Lorquin’s Admiral, and Cabbage Whites. If you see and photograph a butterfly, we’d very much like to use the photo. That said, we have never seen and Island White, nor Kinkaeds Shell. Butterflies are like autos on the I-5 Freeway, they pass through quickly and only stay a brief time, for the latter (almost extinct in the 1 region it lives: Willamette Valley) they live for but 10 days. Imagine if the State of Washington did what Oregon successfully did: a) collect seeds of a specific plant (also on edge of extinction), b) germinate and care for seedlings, c) then plant the seedlings of the annual:
The Gardens list of native plant species (below 3,500’ to sea level, San Francisco to Alaska) the WWU SAM Project has
https://ecos.fws.gov/ecp/species/3285
Fenders butterfly:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/us/fenders-blue-butterfly-endangered-scn-trnd/index.html
https://fancy4page.com/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-united-states-for-the-first-time-perplexing-scientists/
https://derbycanyonnatives.com/2014/attracting-more-insects-with-native-plants-part-2-butterflies/
https://fancy4page.com/one-of-the-worlds-largest-moths-has-been-spotted-in-the-united-states-for-the-first-time-perplexing-scientists/
https://www.sonomanews.com/article/news/californias-final-monarch-butterfly-count-is-in-and-its-even-better-than/?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20Trending%20Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1FELhNyDi5yySGLVNbS9BWB_UXa0yYDVqLM6PsIvqBzKx3Akh3ZgvfimU
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