Naturalists like Sue Muller, a Natural Resources Technician for the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks, have been working to save Maryland’s official state insect, the endangered Baltimore checkerspot Euphydryas phaeton. Since the early 1990s, there has been a rapid decline of the butterflies in the area. “Over a decade has been spent trying to save these butterflies,” said Muller. “It’s not that simple.”
Source: NBC, July 6, 2011
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