MOORHEAD--The Dakota skipper butterfly has a sad, secretive story to tell. Once free to flit over millions of acres of unmolested prairie, the humble Dakota skipper's range has been drastically ...

As the tallgrass prairie has disappeared across much of Minnesota, the Dakota skipper has nearly vanished. Minneapolis. 46°F. eEdition. Minnesota News You Can Use. The Latest. 8 minutes ago.

MOORHEAD, Minn. -- The Dakota skipper butterfly has a sad, secretive story to tell. Once free to flit over millions of acres of unmolested prairie, the humble Dakota skipper’s range has been ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. -- The Dakota skipper butterfly has a sad, secretive story to tell. Once free to flit over millions of acres of unmolested prairie, the humble Dakota skipper's range has been ...

A newly released Dakota skipper butterfly feeds on the nectar of a purple coneflower. It uses its long proboscis, a tubular sucking organ, to extract sweet nectar from the coneflower ...

The moth-like skipper butterfly is no Monarch — they're typically an inch wide, ruddy brown and fuzzy. Somewhat homely, you might say. But to Erik Runquist's eyes, they're a beautiful sight.

Vanishing prairie land was an obvious threat to the Dakota skipper, a prairie butterfly, but experts still wonder why the insects continued to disappear in the mid-2000s.

SAN DIEGO — The last time the Laguna Mountains Skipper Butterfly was seen on Mount Laguna was in a meadow in 1999 and now the only place it can be found is on Palomar Mountain. Since they can't ...