GENERAL INFORMATION
ROM Species at Risk Factsheet http://www.rom.on.ca/ontario/risk.php?doc_type=fact&id=57
US Fish & Wildlife Service, Midwest Endangered Species - Karner Blue Butterfly
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/insects/kbb/index.html
Wisconsin Karner Blue website http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/ForestPlanning/karner.html
ON nature magazine article, Summer 2011 http://onnaturemagazine.com/index.php?s=Karner+Blue
The Extirpation of the Karner Blue Butterfly from Ontario, Canada, article by Phil Schappert, 2000 http://aworldforbutterflies.com/article3a.html
Nature Conservancy of Canada website
http://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/what-we-do/resource-centre/featured-species/karner_blue.html
HABITAT: GUIDES & EVALUATION FORMS
Wisconsin Karner blue butterfly habitat conservation plan user's guide
http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/ForestPlanning/documents/HCPUsersGuide090607.pdf
A guide to the use of distance sampling to estimate abundance of Karner blue butterflies
Kbb Distance Sampling Guide_11June 2008 FINAL.pdf.
Ohio Habitat Form (for site evaluation) & USFWS Nectar Plants (plant list) US Habitat eveluation forms and nectar plants.pdf.
RECOVERY PLANS
Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery Plan, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Minnesota, 2003
http://www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered/insects/kbb/pdf/kbb-final-rp2.pdf
Ohio Conservation Plan KBB Conservation Plan - Ohio.pdf
RESEARCH
Assessing Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) Habitat in Ontario, Canada, for the Feasibility of Reintroduction of the Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides samuelis Nabokov), December 2014. Jarvis_Jesse_201412_MSc.pdf
The Feasibility of the Re-introduction of the Karner Blue Butterfly to Ontario - A Literature Review by University of Guelph Students, April 2012. U of G student report Karner Blue Literarure Review.pdf
COSEWIC Status Appraisal Summary on the Karner Blue (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) in Canada Karner_Blue_Status_Appraisal_Summary_2010.pdf
"Benefit of permanent non-fire refugia for Lepidoptera conservation in fire-managed sites", Ann Swengel & Scott Swengel, 2006. kbb_firemngt.pdf
Pak Kin Chan, Pak Kin and Laurence Packer, "Assessment of Potential Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) (Family: Lycanidae) Reintroduction Sites in Ontario, Canada". Restoration Ecology, Vol. 14 no. 4, pp. 645-652, December 2006. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00176.x/pdf
Studies of the suitability of five oak savannah habitats in Ontario for reintroduction of the Karner Blue Butterfly (SER conference abstract), P.K. Chan & Laurence Packer, 2004. Chan 2004.pdf
Plant Communities in Oak Savannahs in Ontario: Are We Ready for Reintroduction of the Karner Blue Butterfly (Full thesis), P.K. Chan, 2004. www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol2/001/mq99289.pdf
"Are We Ready for Reintroduction of the Karner Blue Butterfly?", P.K. Chan, Presentation to Tallgrass Ontario 3rd Tallgrass Prairie and Savanna Forum, 2003 www.tallgrassontario.org/Publications/Pak_kin.pdf
Chan, P.K. and L. Packer, "Quantitative Assessment Of Potential Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides Melissa Samuelis) Reintroduction Sites In Ontario", Management, Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PRFO) 2003 Proceedings.
http://casiopa.mediamouse.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/PRFO-2003-Proceedings-p347-353-Chan-and-Packer.pdf#search=%22CHan%20Karner%22
"An overlooked locality for Karner Blue (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) in Ontario" by P.M. Catling and VR. Brownell, Toronto Entomologists' Association Publication #32 - 2000 : Butterflies of Ontario & Summaries of Lepidoptera Encountered in Ontario in 1999 www.ontarioinsects.org/Publications/Summaries/1999.pdf
"Potential of bigleaf lupine for building and sustaining Osmia lignaria populations for pollination of apple", Cory S. Sheffield https://dspace.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/2430?show=full