The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

A group of hobbyist butterfly trackers attempting to document and learn about the different butterfly species in the Nilgiris has helped expand the knowledge-base of the life cycles of two rare ...

A WFSU producer and his family raise monarch caterpillars, watch them become butterflies. Over the summer, WFSU Ecology producer Rob Diaz de Villegas found a few monarch caterpillars in his garden ...

After mating with a male butterfly, a sexually mature female butterfly lays her eggs on the leaves of plants The eggs enter a growth phase until they are ready to hatch as caterpillars Each ...

The film explores the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, detailing its remarkable migration journey of up to 6,000 kilometers from Canada to Mexico. It explains the butterfly's anatomy, including ...

A team of wildlife researchers and photographers has, for the first time, recorded and documented the complete life cycle of a rare Spotted Royal butterfly, scientifically known as Tajuria maculata, ...

Few adapatations are more convenient than tricking other creatures into caring for your young. Most adept at this bit of foolery is the cuckoo bird, which lays its eggs in other birds' nests; but no ...

Researchers from Australia's Swinburne University and Germany's Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have developed artificial crystals with unique optical properties that could lead to ...

Butterflies go through four different stages in their life cycle: egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and butterfly. Learn the different stages with this fun game. Move your counter along the path and try to ...