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Butterflies Are Vanishing In The Warming American West

KUNR Public Radio | By Stephanie Serrano
Published March 12, 2021 at 4:25 PM MST
The butterfly is Lycaena rubidus, the ruddy copper. That's among our "top 50" declining species.
Jeffrey Glassberg
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North American Butterfly Association
The butterfly is Lycaena rubidus, the ruddy copper. That's among our "top 50" declining species.

Yet another study is showing an alarming decline in butterflies across the warming American West.

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Stephanie Serrano
Stephanie Serrano is a senior at the University of Nevada, Reno and a Latina born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She joins KUNR as our bilingual news intern for the spring of 2017. It's a special position supported by the Pack Internship Grant Program, KUNR, and Noticiero Movil, a bilingual multimedia news source that's part of the Reynolds School of Journalism.
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