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“So they’re facing all of the challenges that all butterflies in the West are, which is to say development, pesticides, climate change,” Forister said. “When we think about insect declines in general, it’s those things: It’s loss of habitat, it’s contamination of remaining habitat and then it’s climate change, which is altering resources across the whole landscape.”