A rare butterfly takes flight on the Palos Verdes Peninsula by Michael Finnegan

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"A rare butterfly takes flight on the Palos Verdes Peninsula"


"Conservationists watch in awe as 80 endangered Palos Verdes blue butterflies, each bred in captivity, venture into the wild for the first time. It's a step toward saving the insect from extinction.

By Michael Finnegan

March 7 2010

A rare blue butterfly took flight Saturday morning on a wind-swept bluff of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Then another. And then another."

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