The Boston Globe, May 16th, 1999
CONCORD -- In all of New England they're the last of their breed and they're dying out. The food supply sustaining the final handful of official state butterflies is running low. The little garrison of Karner blues numbers less than 50 and it's under attack from a host of enemies. Karner blue butterflies are inch-long bits of airborne sapphire named by author and amateur lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov. Since New England's glaciers retreated they have lived on the wild lupine that grows on the pitch pine barrens that once lined the Merrimack River. Now, to the right of their home in the remnant...
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