The Adonis blue became extinct in the reserve area fifty years ago. Now it is back thanks to wild horses
For five decades, the steppe type of landscape surrounding the current large ungulate reserve at Milovice, close to Prague, lacked one endangered butterfly species – the Adonis blue. It was last recorded by experts in 1967. However, scientists have spotted them in the pastures again this year.
“There were a few specimens, both males and females. This makes it clear that this was not just the unique occurrence of a migrating specimen,” entomologist David Ricl …