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Identify and Attract a Painted Lady Butterfly
Learn how to attract and identify a painted lady butterfly and caterpillar. Find out what they eat and what host plants you ...
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How to Identify a Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly
See what Baltimore checkerspot butterflies and caterpillars look like. Plus, learn which host plants you should grow to ...
Monarch butterflies are on the move. When they'll arrive in Michigan
Monarch butterflies are making their flight north after wintering in Mexico. Here's what to know about the fascinating, fragile traveler.
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Butterfly populations plummet by 22% in US since turn of century
The numbers for four butterflies - the Florida white, Hermes copper, tailed orange and Mitchell's satyr - plummeted by more than 99%. Nine species - about 3% of the total - showed gains.
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Butterflies in the U.S. are disappearing at a ‘catastrophic’ rate
Among the lost is the ghostly white butterfly called Acadian hairstreak ... native to Southern California and the tailed orange butterfly fluttering near the U.S.-Mexico border.
US lost a fifth of its butterflies within two decades
Butterfly populations in the US shrank by more than a fifth within the space of two decades, according to a new study.