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The women are raising larvae of the endangered Taylor's checkerspot for release into the wild

Trista Egli was standing in a greenhouse, tearing up strips of plantain and preparing to feed them to butterfly larvae.

Of the many things the team here has tried to tempt larvae of the Taylor's checkerspot - a native of the Pacific north-west - with, it is the invasive English plantain they seem to love the most.