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This Butterfly Was the First in North America That People Made Extinct New research suggests the iconic Xerces blue butterfly may have been its own species. The 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly specimen, located in the collections of the Field Museum in Chicago, used in the study.Credit...The Field Museum July 21, 2021 More than a century ago, a bluish butterfly flitted among the sand dunes of the Sunset District in San Francisco and laid its eggs on a plant known as deerweed. As the city’s development overtook the dunes and deerweed, the butterflies vanished, too. The last Xerces blue but...

A famous blue butterfly: Still extinct but more distinct A collections drawer of extinct Xerces blue butterflies at the Field Museum in Chicago. New research suggests the iconic Xerces blue butterfly may have been its own species. The Field Museum via The New York Times. by Sabrina Imbler (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- More than a century ago, a bluish butterfly flitted among the sand dunes of the Sunset District in San Francisco and laid its eggs on a plant known as deerweed. As the city’s development overtook the dunes and deerweed, the butterflies vanished, too. The last Xerces blue butterfly was...

The First Art Newspaper on the Net   by Sabrina Imbler (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- More than a century ago, a bluish butterfly flitted among the sand dunes of the Sunset District in San Francisco and laid its eggs on a plant known as deerweed. As the city’s development overtook the dunes and deerweed, the butterflies vanished, too. The last Xerces blue butterfly was collected in 1941 from Lobos Creek by an entomologist who would later lament that he had killed what was one of the last living members of the species. But was this butterfly truly a unique species? Scientists could all agree that the...

This Butterfly May Have Been the First Insect Driven Extinct by U.S. Urbanization The beautiful Xerces blue butterfly was a distinct species, according to a new study. It hasn't been seen alive since 1943. By Photo: Field Museum Scientists say they’ve confirmed a decades-old suspicion about the loss of the Xerces blue butterfly in the U.S by the 1940s. Based on genetic analysis of a 93-year-old specimen and others, they say the Xerces blue really was a distinct species of butterfly, rather than a sub-group of another existing species, as some scientists have speculated. If true, it would re...

This butterfly was the first to go extinct in the US because of humans CNN 3 hrs ago By Ashley Strickland, CNN © Courtesy Field Museum This 93-year-old Xerces blue butterfly specimen was used in a study to prove it was once a unique species. As the first North American insect to go extinct due to humans, a blue butterfly has become an icon for insect conservation -- and what happens when humans destroy habitats without thought for the creatures living in them. The last of the Xerces blue butterflies fluttered through the air in San Francisco in the early 1940s. Now, they...