safe habitat where species are not isolated as it will reduce their chances of breeding hence shrinking the species which will eventually lead to its extinction, hence much of the modern-day restoration work has primarily focused on reversing these aspects.
The habitat for the large blue butterfly is maintained by 6 organizations in Britain that include the National Trust, Somerset and Gloucestershire wildlife trusts, J & F Clark Trust, Natural England, and the University of Oxford and the Royal Entomological Society.
The young caterpillars of the large blue butterfly usually trick ants into seeing them as young ant grubs, and they are taken into ants’ nests it is this dependance on ants that lead to their extinction in Britain, due to the moving away from grazing on traditional meadows that left grass too long and temperatures too cool for the ant species to survive. This is a clear example of how the extinction one species can have a domino effect on others and usually when one habitat disappears it would not just have negative effect for just one sub set of species but the entire species.
The dependance on ants was discovered by researchers discovered back in the 1970s and the analysis of scientific data is said to have played a crucial role in bringing about this success. Comparisons can be drawn by bat researchers who saw a substantial increase in insect populations due to a bat disease as the bat consumption of insects keeps them in check. Many studies have focused on the wider impact environmental pollution can have, which is sure to concern conservationists of the large blue butterfly.
