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 ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar ...

For a naturalist, living in Texas definitely has its share of fringe benefits. The diversity of the flora and fauna that can be observed here is nothing short of amazing. One of the amazing feats of ...

We love to look at butterflies because of their beauty and colors, but you can also enjoy a close look at the lives of butterflies. They contribute to the health of our planet. While feeding on nectar ...

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 ...

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misidentified entomology, the study of insects. ALBANY — One late-blooming monarch butterfly will get the royal treatment on Monday, when Southwest ...

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 ...

After the speeches and blessings came a moment of truth Monday as Maraleen Manos-Jones slowly unwrapped a padded, ice-cooled package containing a single monarch butterfly she had shepherded for 2,400 ...

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 ...