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@pvanheus Would also be interesting to know if we lost a colony. UWC does have a wonderful section of endemic fynbos.

@kretz I thought that there used to be a population of the subspecies (its a subspecies, thus the trinomial name) in the Cape Flats Nature Reserve near UWC. I wonder what happened to those ones (or if my memory was just wrong).

No doubt the False Bay coastline needs to be upgraded to reduce inequality in Cape Town, but perhaps reducing biodiversity and putting one of the world's rarest butterflies at even greater risk is not the way to do it. groundup.org.za/article/strand…

@pvanheus Might have been the Cape Flats Unique Ranger (Kedestes lenis lenis) which are also critically endangered but have a wider range across the Cape Flats.

@HagenEngler Need a Ford Wildtrak to drive past there?

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A great show for adults and children.

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