Karner+Blue+Butterfly

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Dakota B.

Karner Blue Butterfly are small and are about the size of a nickle. The butterfly is found in dry sandy areas with open wood and clearing like pine barrens that has lots of blue lupine. The Karner now live in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Ontario, Canada. The butterflys main diet is only the wild blue lupine. The butterfly have two eggs each year one, in spring and the other in the summer. Then the babies hatch and they crawl up in a lupine plant where it eats the leaves for three to four weeks. Then they turn into a chrysalis and they metamorphsize 8-11 days. The baby Karner is only about a few millimeters long. The Karner Blue Butterfly is endangered because it lives in the Savanna and Barrens ecosystems and they depend on it to live there. They are endangered because their ecosystems is endangered which means their habitat is going away. There is no place to live so the animals are dying off.