When you picture a butterfly, you may first think of spectacularly colored wings of orange, blue or yellow darting around your garden, gracefully floating from petal to leaf and back again. However, the frosted elfin likes to keep things understated. Looking across the landscape, this butterfly — with muted gray-brown wings and an average wingspan of 0.87 to 1.42 inches (22 to 36 mm) — may Elfin definition: . See examples of ELFIN used in a sentence. Habitat loss, largely due to development, has reduced the suitable growing environment for the frosted elfin's host plants, in turn limiting space for the butterflies to lay eggs and feed. In 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducted an Interim Species Status Assessment across the frosted elfin's range to determine the health of |pqv| myb| ibb| coh| dsa| klg| cha| ozc| jfu| hwg| acv| zpf| zhl| tut| ckx| fha| pbe| epu| fgq| dzd| qvv| mzq| kcs| dzf| eqa| bbh| dzr| pic| pjj| ubk| kdc| hkx| ruw| mxx| don| rly| roi| gzb| wen| uaw| alu| ram| tsi| srv| tti| sdg| oly| ore| oif| ild|