Wildlife

Video: Bringing Back the Bay Checkerspot Butterfly

March 15, 2015

Stuart Weiss and his Creekside Center for Earth Observation have been working for several years to bring the Bay Checkerspot butterfly back to Edgewood Park in Redwood City, California. Relying heavily on citizen scientist volunteers known as “The Checkerspotters,” data collected shows that the beloved checkerspots are making a comeback at their ancestral home in the midst of the San Francisco Bay Area megalopolis.

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