New butterflies introduced in San Francisco's Presidio after species went extinct in 1940s
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- An intrepid group of butterflies is about to help turn the clock back nearly a century in San Francisco's Presidio. Biologist Durrell Kapan, Ph.D. of the California Academy of Sciences says the butterflies will be replacing a long-lost species called the Xerces Blue that went extinct in the 1940s.
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I’ve seen this kind of butterfly before. Obviously not the extinct one, but one very similar. They are so beautiful and charming with their blue wings and how they sit and clean themselves. Thank you for fixing what was broken! Keep up the amazing work.
There are many species of “blue” butterflies.
@@haseo8244 Good point. However this video is speaking of about three specific closely related species. My comment was attached to this video so this is the context of my comment. Thank you!
Butterflies are beautiful animals.
Insects
@bluelava4282 yes, insects are animals.
Carbon based lifeforms
@@patrickday4206 unless... ailyuns disguised as animals...
@@patrickday4206 poetic
Step one is to restore the habitat with the indigenous native plants. Habitat Restoration is happening all over the Bay Area.
Anyone can volunteer. Repairing degraded native plant communities with other volunteers is socially and spiritually rewarding.
Get involved. You'll love it.
We are all a symbiotic relationship and depend on each other ...love your neighbors, animals and bugs...
Is that why you modify the genes of your neighbors and dogs? To make them look like your old neighbors and dogs who died? This wasn't symbiosis, it was creating Frankenstein's monster without as noble a goal.
@@notchomomma239 Nobody created these butterflies. They simply used DNA to determine the closest relatives of the extinct butterflies.
@@notchomomma239, I'll have two of whatever you took.
Butterfly in the skyyyy
I can go twice as highhh
Take a look! It’s in a book…
A Reading Rainbow!
I can see me now sitting on the ABC rug in first grade(1995), watching this with my classmates. Some of whom I’m still friends with to this day!
I can get twice as high 😂
So they didn’t actually bring those specific butterflies back. They just replaced them with something else. Cool
The closest relative but yeah.
Didn't read the title, eh? 😂😂😂
@@virg0_lem0nade I read the title,whichis nonsensical. If a species is extinct it can't be brought back, because it's extinct. We haven't begun recreating unique species, best we can do is a hybrid with some of their genes.
So the title is inherently nonsensical. Your appeal to it, equally so
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Have you ever used God’s name in vain-like a cuss word, lied, stolen, hated someone, gossiped, lusted, etc(see more in the 10 commandments)? This is called sin and we’ve all done at least one of these. Now, sin is basically doing something against God’s will. Now because we have done something against His will, it’s good to note that He is Just. A JUST judge wouldn’t look at a guilty criminal and give them a non-guilty verdict for what they’ve done. And if the Judge is Just, they wouldn’t let the criminal go if they had said that they had done something Good. Our actions are way more serious and cannot be paid off of just because I did something Good. (So good works cannot save us) This is exactly How God is! He’s so just that He looks at us, and He has to send us to hell. Scary right? But HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS!! Usually, there is bail- a payment that someone can do for a guilty criminal so that they can be set free- legally. Now here’s JESUS, who is GOD and takes our place for us THROUGH DYING ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS- to basically pay off the price that sin created. See Romans 6:23, but here’s what Jesus did: John 3:16, Romans 4:25, 2 Corinthians 5:21 AND
Romans 10:9-10
If we believe in Jesus and repent (turn away from sin) then we will be saved from our punishment. But we must continue this relationship with Jesus!
Kinda like they did with the grey wolves in Yellowstone.
Gatorade: its what butterflies crave
Lol I know right. I never knew they like Gatorade.
It is a decent food source for butterflies in captivity if you’re short of nectar plants.
Its nice thay butterflies still have housing.
The Silvery Blue attact and strategically destroy anything in their way between a hot sun and a bottle of gatoraid, they have been know to mimick the behavior of the Monarchs gang in that show the Venture Bros, just for a taste of that sweet sweet juice of Gatoraid.
Shit's gangsta, son
Do you suffer from dementia?
This is humanity at its best💖
The apocalypse in 50 years can be traced to this moment here. Penultimate butterfly effect.
😂😂😂😂
@@sexgod6909 lol I'm a little dramatic I suppose 😂
Am I the only one taken back that these little guys drink Gatorade? 😂
That's so cool. I remembered reading about hearing a species can come back from completely extinction. How some species evolved to their environment taking on the exact extinction species.
They're gone. Their genome can't be recreated. You can introduce a precursor genus, but even if every condition was identical to the conditions during their original evolution they'll still end up different due to chaos. Once it's extinct it's gone, even genome cloning requires a host whose genome contaminates the clone. We will NEVER have a wooly mammoth, the best we can hope for is a wooly African elephant
Oooo this is VERY cool!!!! Introducing a new species is always nerve wracking, but this is so clever and well researched (and low risk lmao butterflies don't tend to be invasive *too* easily, which is part of the cleverness) This is an incredible way to potentially replace keystone species that are already extinct. I hope it's successful and that we can have similar future successes in other areas! As a hobby conservationist living in Cali--this is really nice to see!! Ironically i actually see a lot less well researched conservationism here in Cali than i did in Florida lmao
I wanna see a project that introduces normal people to California to replace the woke idiots
They Should start this in the Tenderlion. A whole bunch of invaisive species moved in and really stunk the place up...
That’s fantastic!
Amazing! Now do this with T-rex 🦖
If they were do this with T-Rex's closest living relatives like they did with the butterfly, in a place where T-Rex lived, then they would release a bunch of chickens in Texas. Sounds easy.
I second this proposal very hard.
Thank you for bringing these beautiful butterfly’s
❤Thank you for bringing some sunshine to this see of despair❤
That's so exciting...and an awesome endeavor!!! Thank you for your conservation efforts!!!
❤🦋 We are all connected.🦋❤
I think it's sad people don't understand, that conservation efforts are for our own benefit. It's the best most "selfish" thing we can do.
...but it's not the same species...the closest species. It's an introduced species.
So? they are cousins. The distinction between a variety and a species is somewhat arbitrary anyway.
@@GH-oi2jf I think of it like replacing extinct humans with an altered chimp. Cousins for sure but not the same.
It looks more like a moth too
The silvery blue I’m more than familiar with as. They’re native to Canada and they eat invasive vetch too, not just deerweed or other native legumes.
Where's the sound? I wanted to know about these butterflies, darn it.
that's so sweet
We got to do this In Florida
I love all the types of small azure butterflies!
Fly, be free. 🌈
2:08 Butterflies “Good Soup”
This is the most wholesome thing I’ve seen on the news recently.
Butterflies yes, dinosaurs no.
Beautiful 😍🙏💃🏻 x
Bring on the rewilding!!!🙂↔️❤️
Butterflies are beautiful important to our survival pollinators Without them we would starve
I was hoping they used crisper to make the original butterfly genes
Society loves butterfly but hates moth. Its so funny.
Isnt this the butterfly that has a caterpillar that can mimic ant larva and eat them?
That's pretty neat, but it's not the same, is it? It is it's own kind, now.
So unless genetically engineered to life, it never was extinct....
Incredible. Surprise the blue belly had to be reintroduced to the aera
Should bring back the brown 🐻
Interesting i know that darpa has been turning butterfly's and moths into military drones. They even are at the ponit they put the microchip in the larve stage.
👏👏👏🦋✨🌎
"Life finds a way..."
You can give butterflies Gatorade...?
Gatorade is just water, sugar, and salt. These are all things that butterflies seek out normally. Sugar water from flowers and salts from sweat, carcasses, dung, mud puddles, etc.
Can it clean all the poop and drug needles on the streets?
Yay!
💛💚💙💜❤
There’s a new mosquito in the US as well.
i hope they dont become deadly
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Rhyming like a fairytale for children.
the butter fly effect
Now they're going to cause hundreds of hurricanes and tsunamis in southeast Asia and India. Thanks a lot, scientists! 🤓
LOL that's what SF needs!!!! This will fix Everything!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Best of luck to the little guys.
Seems like alot of blues are restricted to dune habitat and host plants, also giving then GMO Gatorade seems kinda.......dumb. lol. Idk but shouldn't that be considered a potential contamination.
🥰👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This will literally cause the "butterfly effect"!!
Love it
So damn cool
❤
People playing god
💚
At least there trying.
We need to introduce lions to eat some tent-tacos
@2:21 It really bothers me when they reintroduce these animals with collars or other devices permanently attached to them. That is not how they naturally live and is probably impacting them in ways we aren't privy to yet.
This isnt going to end well.
I’d be interested to see them catch a pack of invasive coyotes on the east coast and put them over there and see how the gap in genetics affects the health of the subsequent crosses as the pack splits
😂😅
Yay! Lab created butterflies! Dinosaurs next
No. Watch the video again. The tested dna to get the most similar species they could that already exists and is not extinct.
No matter what they do, they can't return the area to what it was 100 years ago. All they are doing is creating a monstrous theme park amidst human sprawl.
Good thing nature is naturally a beatiful theme park with imense diversity.
I'm glad they're restoring some part of nature instead of being bound with lifeless lawns. Plus, if one personally wanted to, they could bring nature into their own yards and expand that "theme park"
A hundred years from now, it will be like it was a thousand years ago.
You must be fun at parties.
Half of the humans are bad and half of them are good.
Who is Who?
@@Semper_Iratus I can't recognize who is bad and who is good
@@Semper_Iratus There in lies the rub..
@@nicolasnicolas2801That’s the rub homie..
Most humans are perfectly decent. However, you’re a simpleton.
What could go wrong? 12 breeding pairs of Starlings were introduced into Central Park and now they're everywhere as parasitic nesters.
Starlings were not native to the area they were introduced in.
IMO,
There is no such thing as "restoring"/"conserving" if the Jurassic Park method is utilized. Its a completely new organism being introduced.
This is like the literal "butterfly effect".
Introducing a completely novel species, in terms of genetics, will have profound and unpredictable effects, especially over a long enough timeline.
Go head, act as a god but with the knowledge and foresight of a goldfish or maybe a pug.
smh
They are only feeding the spiders
Spiders gotta eat don't they.
yet we are closing universities left and right
Wow! America is damn near about to go to war and we are talking about ……..butterflies. Who’s paying these people?????
Everything does not stop just because something bigger is going on.
I’d prefer to hear about something other then war thank you very much
A coyote flipped our dog over a fence by the neck and tried to drag it into the underbrush. We live in Palo Alto. Are they insane? One single coyote grabbed our dog by the nape of his spine before he could bark, and broke his neck by flipping him like a rag doll through the air. We paid multiple thousands of dollars to save him. This is where selfie culture collides with logic and ethics as the temperature cooks the plants yellow, we introduce fragile life?
You need violent predators to not have eco systems collapse. People made the mistake with wolves decades ago.
what
What on Earth is "aclimated" ? Did yo mean "acclimatised". (Americanese: "acclimatized").
"become accustomed to a new climate or to new conditions."
You are clearly a cunning linguist.
It's not hard to look it up.
@@justmejenny7986 when he misspells "acclimated" it makes it slightly more difficult. 🤪
Very wrong ive seen these before ! San Diego has a crap load of those 😂
GFREAT! THOSE BUGS KILLED MY FAMILY!
This makes me happy. 🥹