Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). The Karner blue butterfly, an endangered species, is a small butterfly that lives in oak savannas and pine barren ecosystems from eastern Minnesota and eastward to the Atlantic seaboard. For more information see:

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