ies everywhere have been destroyed or fragmented by agricultural and urban development. Remaining prairies continue to be threatened by agricultural conversion, grazing, and pesticide applications. Management of prairies is also an issue because this butterfly appears to be more sensitive to fire than some other prairie-dependent species. Fire has impacted populations of Arogos Skipper, and in some places it is known to have caused local extirpation. Fire rotations of two years or less appear to severely impact this butterfly. Fire rotations of three years or greater have less impact.
The butterflies prairie and grassland habitats must be protected from development or conversion and management of remaining prairie should be done to minimize the impact of management actions on the butterfly.
Further research is needed into the impacts of fires (particularly the timing of prescribed burns) and the viability of populations on smaller habitat fragments.
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