X-Kids

What is the X Kids Program?

Many years ago, there was a butterfly called the Xerces blue. The Xerces blue lived in sand dunes on the edge of San Francisco in California and its caterpillars depended on specific plants growing there to eat. Over the years, the habitat got smaller as the city got bigger and eventually the butterflies no longer had the food and shelter they needed to survive. The Xerces blue butterfly was last seen alive in the early 1940s.

While this story is very sad, it sparked the idea to start an organization of people to help prevent this from happening to other butterflies and invertebrates. In 1971, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation was founded, named after the Xerces blue.

As an X Kid, you will use your superpowers to help the Xerces society save incredible invertebrates! - Xerxes Society 

Click here to join the adventure and become a Xerces Kid today!