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checkerspot butterfly: Are We Insectophobes? - 05/01/09 07:38 PM
I was just working on an article about the attempted control and eradication of the Glassy Wing Sharpshooter in California. The GWSS posed a deadly threat to California Vineyards back in the late 90's so a coalition of government, businesses, universities, institutions, etc., have banded together with one goal in mind - eradicate the Glassy Wing Sharpshooter. It's not a goner yet but the end may be in sight - no more GWSS! Yeah!
Wait just a darn minute. All these groups are banded together to try to ERADICATE an insect species? In California? Am I hearing that right?
Didn't I just … (4 comments)

checkerspot butterfly: ENDANGERED FECES! What? Oh, never mind then. - 02/14/09 02:25 PM
So I'm reading an article in the Obama TIME Magazine a week or so ago (formerly just TIME Mag, now it's Obama TIME all the TIME), and I'm reading an article by Richard Stolley about a crisis facing the residents of the tiny town of Cloudcroft, New Mexico.
Cloudcroft is facing a crisis because of another type of resident, the Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly. Seems the biological clock is ticking down on the butterfly and 'the usual suspect' blame mankind. The towns main industry, timber, was shut down in 1993 in response to environmental demands to save the Mexican Spotted … (16 comments)