[In terms of intermedial theory,] Kingsolver's choice of an ekphrasis that adapts and reworks a canonical artwork, transforming it both in medial terms and in terms of its content, while still alluding to the artwork that inspired it, is an adaptation in the sense that Bruhn and Hart (2020) define it. Kingsolver portrays a nascent multispecies community--Dellarobia and the butterflies--adapting from one medium, television, to another, digital artwork. Through its transformation and subsequent virality, it reaches many, many more people than Dellarobia or the news story could. In this way, the multispecies community narrative adapts to a new medial environment to survive and, in this case, thrive.