In Oklahoma by late November, native butterflies have entered overwintering stage. Curled up under a hay bale, hanging onto a ...

In Oklahoma, by late November, native butterflies have entered overwintering stage. Curled up under a hay bale, hanging onto ...

On June 25, 2024, in Florida, USA, @skylerstelz shared an amazing video of performing a delicate wing-repair surgery on a monarch butterfly. In the video, the author replaces the damaged portion of ...

A Conneaut Valley kindergarten class observed the life cycle of monarch caterpillars with help from a local enthusiast. Monarch caterpillars exclusively eat milkweed and go through five molting stages ...

It was the first rain that the Winchester area had seen in 23 days. But last Wednesday, Philip Haines was hoping that the sky would clear. Inside a storage shed on his Frederick County farm, Haines ...

A lesson on language and science at Bowling Green Middle School took flight last week – literally. Students in Clari Timmins’ Spanish classroom had adopted six caterpillars and watched as they ...

Monarch butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis, or a four-part life cycle. Life begins as a tiny egg, which soon hatches an elfin larva, or caterpillar. The caterpillar does much of the heavy ...

They’re a brilliant orange sight by the millions as the season changes and we’re not talking about the leaves. This week is all about monarch butterflies. * The story goes that the “monarch” part ...

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

The thrill of tracking the migrations of two of nature’s most elegant creatures is enjoyed by people all over the world. Generations of monarch butterflies are flying more than 1,000 miles south for ...