Google Earth Inspires Rediscovery of Lost Butterfly Species

[caption id="attachment_2590" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A female Waterberg copper (Erikssonia edgei) photographed by Jeremy Dobson. Used with permission."] [/caption]A South African butterfly species that lepidopterists feared had gone extinct more than a decade ago has been rediscovered after a search on Google Earth revealed a habitat much like the insect's former home. That tip refocused a stalled search for the lost species that had not been seen since the mid-1990s. [More]