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Topic: butterflies

A black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi)
Science
Sunday, 6/28, 06:11 AM

A zoo's bid to bring back a butterfly Britain lost a century ago

  • Dartmoor Zoo has begun breeding black-veined white butterflies — a species extinct in Britain since 1925 — with plans to release them into the Devon countryside as early as next summer, in a conservation push partners hope can restore a small piece of the nation's depleted wildlife.

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