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There were two plants – the Contra Costa wallflower and the Antioch Dunes evening primrose – and one insect, the Lange’s metalmark butterfly.

In some ways, the tiny ranges of invertebrates like the Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly make them perfect targets for protection.

The metalmark butterfly is tiny, with a wingspan about the size of thumbnail.

Erenler, a visiting researcher at the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, has been traveling to Masaya since 2008 mostly on her own dime to study the behavior of colorful pollinators like the rare Godman’s metalmark.

Center dreams of traveling to Florida to see a showy metalmark, although she said she got excited recently to see a comparatively modest roadside skipper near Dorena Lake.