sciencethis is the sinai Baton Blue one of the world’s smallest butterflies It feeds on a specific kind of wild thyme that can only be found in the small corner of the Sinai desert But over grazing by Bedouin herds and over collection of this plant for medicinal purposes could spell the end of the unique species Global warming and the number of predators present additional threats for the Sinai Baton blue Predators to the sinai Baton Blue they include lizards and which is the main threat and also some birds some spiders and some praying mantis also had been found to prey upon Sinai Baton blue These butterflies are poor fliers with a range of only a hundred meters That means that each isolated cluster of thyme plants hosts a discrete population of baton Blues If that group perishes it’s just too far for any other group to travel to colonize the thyme Equally if the thyme dies so do the insects Local inhabitants are very attached to these butterflies I’m really happy that this butterfly exists on that mount Musa We love this area naturally but we love it more with the butterflies because it’s the smallest one in the world that makes us happy scientists believe the fate of the sinai Baton Blue could be the perfect model for endangered species threatened by global warming If the plants that the butterflies depend on die out due to rise in temperature their lost will be instant and complete as the insects simply have nowhere else to go and feed
