Monarchs’ scientific name, Danaus plexippus, is Greek for “sleepy transformation”: a poetic description of the metamorphosis that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch butterflies only flap their ...

It takes 10 days to two weeks for a monarch to transform from a pupating caterpillar to an adult. “I fell in love with ...

The population wintering in central Mexico's forests occupied 4.42 acres, up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.

Take the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus ... sheds its caterpillar skin leaving behind a green exoskeleton called a chrysalis, containing all of the transforming cells that soon will make ...

A Pennsylvania butterfly farmer says listing the monarch as a threatened species could do more harm than good.

VERNON — Vernon is an entry point for monarch butterflies migrating north from their ... The kids would watch them transform from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly over the span of a couple weeks.

That in itself is a tricky manoeuvre: the caterpillar hangs from a small patch of silk while it takes its skin of. The trick ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Want to increase the chances of having butterflies ... a monarch butterfly's intense annual migration. Next, stop by the Butterfly Emergence Gallery, where live chrysalis ...

In a few weeks, the eggs transform into caterpillars, then the chrysalis stage, and finally to adult monarch butterflies. This new generation of monarchs heads north but only makes it to Oklahoma ...

Monarchs’ scientific name, Danaus plexippus, is Greek for “sleepy transformation”: a poetic description of the metamorphosis that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch butterflies only flap their ...