Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Until the 20th century, the Palos Verdes peninsula—a small spit of land south of Los Angeles—was the only home of the blue butterfly Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis . Unchecked development, however, eroded this small habitat and nearly caused the extinction of the fickle butterfly . After years of work rebuilding the degraded ecosystem, conservationists released 80 Palos Verdes blue b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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80 Rare Butterflies Released to Spend their Short Lives in the Wild