Butterflies play a major role in supporting life on earth. As pollinators, they help plants reproduce, and they’re an important link in the food chain for birds, bats, and other insectivorous animals. To gauge their health, it’s essential to count them. Local volunteers contributed to a continent-wide annual census in July, tallying 874 individual butterflies and 27 different species in the Point Reyes National Seashore, Inverness, Point Reyes Station, and Olema on a single day.…