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HomeExploreAnimalsSpecies Brought Back to Parts of Britain by ReintroductionLarge blue

Large blue

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Large blue
PJC&Co / CC BY-SA 3.0 · resizedfile
The large blue disappeared from Britain in 1979. To bring it back, researchers restored the short, warm turf where its host ants can live. The butterfly’s caterpillars spend part of their development inside ant nests, so restoring flowers alone would never have been enough.
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