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 ...

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 ...

This year’s count of 4.42 acres of occupied forest habitat is nearly twice as large as last year's, but eastern monarch ...

National Plant a Flower Day is all about celebrating the beauty of flowers. Planting them can also help save pollinators like ...

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 ...

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

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 ...