Source: CCTV news client
On August 27, the Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve Management Bureau's Nature Reserve Fertility Research Base of the Golden Spotted Beaked Butterfly spread good news, following the successful release of two Golden Spotted Beaked Butterflies in the wild for the first time in 2020, and successfully feathered 2 birds again in August this year, of which 1 was a female butterfly. This time, the use of artificial technology to successfully conserve the female butterfly with a golden beak is the first time in China.
It is understood that the golden-beaked butterfly is known as the "giant panda" of the insect world, ranking first among the world's eight most precious butterflies, with the reputation of "dream butterfly", "queen of butterflies" and "living fossils of the world's animals", is a national key protected animal, mainly inhabiting subtropical or tropical sub-primary forests at an altitude of about 1000 meters, the number of wild survival is very rare, rarely found.
The golden-beaked butterfly is divided into four geographical subspecies on the mainland: the nominate subspecies, the Wuyi subspecies, the Guangxi subspecies, and the Hainanese subspecies. The discovery of the Jinggangshan distribution species is the first to be recorded in the Luoxiao Mountains, because of the sparse number of scientific individuals, and no subspecies have been identified.
(Reporter Chen Danyang Yan Junqi)