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The site was home to scarce plants including pyramidal and bee orchids, and a rare colony of marbled white butterflies that had relied on common knapweed and red fescue.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

"For a colony, a 13 percent reduction in foraging can be consequential," Couvillon said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

The last time something similar happened, albeit smaller, Spain and Morocco were at loggerheads over Western Sahara, a former colony.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

A vignette about Laika, the Soviet space dog, sets up a futurist fantasia in which a dogs-only space colony finally breaks their reliance on humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

A traveler had found the whole colony on the Island of Wings dead.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The authors, both entomologists, detail violent territorial battles between colonies and against invading predators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Bumblebees cannot collect water in the way honeybees do, they get most of the liquid they need from nectar, so wetter nectar can help make colonies more resilient in hot weather.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The Bank of England made the British Empire the mightiest in the world, but the North American colonies remained a financial backwater as they struggled to assert their independence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

The Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris, is home to large communities of working-class immigrants from the country’s former colonies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

When the war-sick arrive here, my family will have to move nearer to those colonies or go north, into the mountains.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker