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SD Researcher Releasing Endangered Dragonflies In Illinois

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A number of federally endangered dragonflies that were raised in captivity at a South Dakota lab over the past four to five years are being released into the wild this week in Illinois.

The Hine’s emerald dragonflies were raised at the University of South Dakota after eggs were collected from a dragonfly in southwestern Wisconsin.

Daniel Soluk is a USD professor and the project’s leader. He says the effort is meant to preserve the species, which got the federally endangered label in 1995.

For decades, scientists believed the species to be extinct. But that changed when an adult specimen was found in 1988 and was later identified as a Hine’s emerald dragonfly.

Soluk has released three out of 20 possible dragonflies so far this week at a forest preserve.

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