The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes time to reach this stage of its adult life. Understanding a few facts about the process lets you observe it in nature with ease ...

Monarch butterflies are the iconic butterfly. It's impossible not to picture their vibrant orange and black wings fluttering through gardens or meadows when someone mentions them by name. These ...

The monarch butterfly is easily identified by its bold orange, black and white coloring. This fascinating insect goes through an amazing life cycle consisting of four stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and ...

Retired schoolteacher Tachi Dellinger pointed inside a mesh box, where three green chrysalises hung. “This one is starting to change color,” Dellinger said. “It will turn jet black ... when it's ready ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - When many people think of a butterfly, they picture the iconic black and orange monarch. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing to get monarch butterflies ...

The hotter conditions produced more potent toxins in the milkweed. But the researchers said that surprisingly, the parasitic ...

Arkansas is a great place to spot monarch butterflies as it falls directly in their migration path! While monarch butterflies travel through Arkansas in both the spring (late March to April) and the ...

I have not seen where the Hempfield Township supervisors, in their infinite collective wisdoms and forethoughts, saved the monarch caterpillars’ chrysalis and milkweed before leveling the ground for ...