( KRON ) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investing over $3.8 million to recover two endangered butterfly species native to the Bay Area, including San Bruno’s elfin butterflies and mission blue butterflies found across South San Francisco to Redwood City.
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According to the Wildlife Service, actions toward recovery include “restoring habitat, conducting annual surveys of the butterflies and their food plants, managing invasive plants, increasing the number of food plants through seeding, and conducting important research on the species.”
The Wildlife Service says it will work with “a variety of partners” to implement a recovery plan for the two respective butterfly species.
The investment is part of a larger $20 million investment in endangered species, which the Wildlife Service said is reserved to support four species groups: “Hawaiian and Pacific Island plants, butterflies and moths, freshwater mussels, and southwest desert fish.”