“It doesn’t appear the skipper is threatened in any way in South Carolina. We’re in its stronghold,” said Brian Scholtens, College of Charleston biology professor for whom a graduate student recently did what might have been the first real scientific search for the butterfly in the state. Scholtens is a little perturbed that the skipper is being considered for protection while other species aren’t that probably are threatened.
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/oct/08/trying-to-sort-out-at-risk-species/
