A wildlife group reintroduces 35 silver-studded blue butterflies to a Norfolk country park.
Silver-studded blue butterflies have been lost from more than 80% of their former habitats in the past centuryA protected species of butterfly has been reintroduced to its former home after an absence of more than 70 years.
Silver-studded blue butterflies have been lost from more than 80% of their former habitats in the past century as heathland was converted to forestry and housing, a natural history group said.The group has moved 35 of the scarce butterflies from Buxton Heath to a country park near Horsford. The site at Broadland Country Park was the original source of butterflies introduced to Horsford Rifle Range, Buxton Heath and Kelling Heath, but the original population was destroyed in the 1950s when plantation forestry took over.
With the trees now removed, heather and black ants, which the butterflies need to complete their life cycle, have returned, and the species should once again thrive in its former home, the Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society said.
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