GCMTDN The Butterfly Effect (Traditional Cache) in Ontario, Canada created by lk2064

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Hidden : 2/14/2005

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Come check out these near extinct butterflies, nice trails, general difficulty is not to hard, may have to watch out for muggles when the nicer weather arrives.Parking is at N 43°13.398, W 81°53.248

Description
The Karner Blue is a small butterfly with a wingspread of just 22 to 32 mm. The upper side of the male's wing is iridescent light blue, edged with a thin black line that parallels a white fringe on the wing's outer margins. The upper side of the female's wing is purple-blue with a purple-brown tone; a chain of black spots appears on the leading and outer areas of the wings. An inner parallel row of orange crescents embrace these black spots. The bottom side of both sexes is light silver-grey with several white-edged, black spots in the inner areas of both wings.

The species has declined by up to 90 % since the early to mid-1980s. By the early 1980s only two of Ontario's six sites remained - Port Franks and St. Williams. The Port Franks site was considered secure, with the population possibly growing in 1984. At that time, the population exceeded 1,000 individuals. The St. Williams site was conversely very small, with about seven individuals, and expected to die out. Then, during extremely dry summers in 1988 and 1989, the Wild Lupine populations died before Karner Blue adults had laid second broods. The Wild Lupine is the Karner Blue larva's only source of food. Since then, there have been no confirmed reports of the butterfly at either site. The situation in the United States is quite similar. The butterfly is extirpated or endangered in all but one state where its status is not known.

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