Although 100 of the 198 beetles could have been from this spring's translocation, at least 98 had to be the result of eggs laid here two years ago — a great improvement over the 30 to 40 beetles seen over the past ten years. This reversal of the past's critically low numbers gives hope that this population will be stabilized. This is an important recovery action for the species. The Puritan tiger beetle is globally imperiled; it is found in only two places in the world, the Connecticut River (two remaining sites of the 11 historic ones) and also along a small portion of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.