Only nine of these butterflies were found across the US in 2022; three years later researchers released more than 1,300 to rebuild the species
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August 18, 2026
By 2022, researchers had documented only nine Poweshiek skipperlings in the entire United States On a summer day in Michigan, a tiny Poweshiek skipperling butterfly takes flight over a restored prairie. The butterfly is smaller than a quarter, but its…