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Last summer, the missing white-letter hairstreak butterfly was spotted in Scotland for the first time in 133 years. Conservation
Last summer, the missing white-letter hairstreak butterfly was spotted in Scotland for the first time in 133 years. Conservation
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2022-08-27
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Last summer, the missing white-letter hairstreak butterfly was spotted in Scotland for the first time in 133 years. Conservationists wondered if the creature had established a breeding colony in the country—and a hew discovery suggests there is good reason to be optimistic. As Russell Jackson reports for the Scotsman, volunteer naturalists recently found a cluster of tiny white-letter hairstreak eggs on an elm tree in Lennel, a small village near the country of Berwickshire.
Volunteers with the UK’s Butterfly Conservation have been carefully tracking white-letter hairstreak migrations for more than ten years. The butterfly, which boasts a distinctive "W" pattern on the underside of its wings, is native to the U.K. and was once widespread in England and Wales. But white-letter hairstreak numbers have declined drastically in recent decades,
largely due to an outbreak of Dutch elm disease, an illness that took hold in the 1960s. The disease has killed millions of British elm trees, which is the food source for white-letter hairstreak caterpillars (蝴蝶或蛾的幼虫).
Recently, there have been signs that the butterfly’s populations are recovering. The Butterfly Conservation team has observed the white-letter hairstreak gradually spreading northwards, possibly due to warming climates. But the white-letter hairstreak is still a very rare sight in Scotland, and the volunteers who found the cluster of eggs—Ken Haydock and Jill Mills—were thrilled by the discovery.
"It was a lovely sunny morning and we were searching the elm trees by the River Tweed at Lennel when Jill called me over," Haydock says in a Butterfly Conservation statement. "I could see by the look on her face that she had found something. We were both smiling with disbelief and delight when we realized what Jill had found and within seconds I was fumbling in my pack for the camera—my hands were shaking!"
That Haydock and Mills managed to spot the eggs is quite remarkable; according to Vittoria Traverso of Atlas Obscura, white-letter hairstreak eggs are smaller than a grain of salt. The volunteers were also excited to discover an old, hatched eggshell amid the cluster of new eggs. According to the Butterfly Conservation, this suggests that the white letter hairstreak could have been breeding in the area since at least 2016.
Paul Kirkland, the director of the Butterfly Conservation’s Scotland chapter, says in the statement that conservationists will "need to have a few more years of confirmed sightings" before they can classify the white-letter hairstreak as a resident species of Scotland. "If this happens, it would take the total number of butterflies found in Scotland to 34," he says, "which really would be something to celebrate."
What was said about the white-letter hairstreak butterfly?
选项
A、It has been native to the U.S. and spread to England.
B、Signs have shown that its number is rising again now.
C、Its population is decreasing due to global warming.
D、People can see them every now and then in Scotland.
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的信息词white—letter hairstreak butterfly和题文同序的原则,可以把答题线索定位到第三段。第三段提到,最近,有迹象表明这种蝴蝶的数量正在恢复。C项Signs have shown that its number is rising again now是原文Recently,there have been signs that the butterfly’s populations are recovering的同义转述,故本题应选C。白毛小灰蝶原产于英国,而不是美国,故排除A项;白毛小灰蝶的数量在恢复,而不是下降,故排除B;白毛小灰蝶在苏格兰依然罕见,故排除D。
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