Efforts to save the endangered Fender’s blue butterfly have resulted in quadrupling the population as well as helping save its host plant, the Kincaid’s lupine, from a similar fate!

"[T]he species is slated to be downlisted from endangered to threatened. If this status change is finalized, as is expected to happen this year, Fender’s blue will become only the second insect to have recovered in the history of the Endangered Species Act." ([Story Source](https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.11/north-wildlife-how-a-rare-butterfly-returned), [Image Source](https://annualmeeting2020.npsoregon.org/fieldtrips.php?id=22))

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