Creature Feature: To Save the Mission Blue Butterfly, You Have to Save the Lupine
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Saving the endangered mission blue butterfly is a lupine-focused mission. The mission blues, which now survive only in a few places near San Francisco Bay, can’t reproduce in habitats that lack certain kinds of lupine.