Insects

Threatened, Endangered, Proposed, and Candidates in the Upper Midwest

American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) (=giant carrion)

June 9, 2009: American Burying Beetle Reintroduction: Endangered Species Returned to Wayne National Forest

Reintroducing the American Burying Beetle (Aug. 2008)

American Burying Beetle 5-Year Review: March 2008 (53-page PDF 3.43MB)

Fact Sheet

Species Profile

Dakota skipper(Hesperia dacotae)

Dakota Skipper Natural History and Status Information:

Dakota Skipper Fact Sheet

Dakota Skipper Status Assessment (June 2002) PDF; 84 pages; 600KB

Dakota Skipper Management:

Dakota Skipper Conservation Guidelines (Sept. 2007)

Dakota Skipper Restoration:

Private Stewardship Grant (May 2007): Restore Native Prairie and Oak Savanna Communities In the Little Sioux Watershed in Northwest Iowa – Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, and O’Brien Counties, Iowa

Private Stewardship Grant (2005): Imperiled Species Conservation on Private Land in Western Minnesota (Wilkin, Ottertail, Grant, Pope, Kandiyohi, Big Stone, Yellow Medicine and Lac Qui Parle counties, Minnesota)

Dakota Skipper Regulatory Information:

Questions and Answers about Designating Dakota Skipper as a Candidate for Listing under the Endangered Species Act

Region 3 Candidate Species List

Information about the candidate conservation program

**Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)**

Hine's emerald dragonfly web pages

**Hungerford's crawling water beetle (Brychius hungerfordi Spangler)**

Recovery Actions:

Hungerford's Crawling Water Beetle Five-year Review (August 2009)

Hungerford's Crawling Water Beetle Final Recovery Plan (Sept. 2006)
5 Year Review Initiated July 19, 2005

Natural History and Regulatory Information

Species Profile - links to our national endangered species website

Fact Sheet

**Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)**

Karner blue butterfly web page

**Mitchell's satyr butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)**

Mitchell's Satyr Natural History and Regulatory Information:

Fact Sheet
Species Profile (links to the FWS National Endangered Species Site)

Mitchell's Satyr Recovery Actions:

Private Stewardship Grant (May 2007): Restoring Southeast Michigan’s High Diversity Landscapes Through Collaborative Stewardship – Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee, Oakland, and Washtenaw Counties, Michigan

Recovery Land Acquisition Grant (2006): Conservation Easement Acquisition for Mitchell’s Satyr (Washtenaw County, MI)

Private Stewardship Grant (2005): Cotton Lake Fen and Prairie Restoration (Calhoun County, Michigan)

Recovery Plan - PDF: 7.9 MB; 81 pages

Mitchell's Satyr Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP)

Mitchell's Satyr Rangewide HCP

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