A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...

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is an important plant to include in your wildflower garden because it serves as the only host plant for monarch butterflies. But this genus, which includes over 70 species native to the U.S., also ...

If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these ... Some species’ numbers are dropping faster than others. The West Coast lady, a fairly widespread species across the western ...

the Hermes copper butterfly native to Southern California and the tailed orange butterfly fluttering near the U.S.-Mexico border. More than 100 species have declined by more than 50%. The findings ...

Utica native Mary E. Clemmer was not the first person to utter “First Lady” when describing the president’s wife, but she was the one who popularized it from 1877 going forward. Once ...

Some well-known species had large drops. The red admiral, which is so calm it lands on people, is down 44% and the American lady butterfly, with two large eyespots on its back wings, decreased by ...

nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined by more than half. Twenty-two species fell by more than 90%. Only nine actually increased in numbers. Some species' numbers ...

(AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File) Monarch butterflies from Canada stop to rest in Wendy Park on their way to Mexico, Sept. 12, 2023, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) A painted lady butterfly ...