One Japanese grade-school student wanted to know if his hand-raised butterflies remembered him. The results were astounding.

Garden plantings of native coontie helped fuel a quiet rebound, with sightings now spreading north and peaking in Florida’s ...

Learn which monarch butterfly predators and parasites pose a real threat to their survival, and which are part of the natural ...

Fill your herb garden with black swallowtail butterflies. Learn what the caterpillar, eggs and adult butterflies look like.

Papilio is an enthusiastic and adventurous caterpillar. Then she's a blob of goo, hanging out in her chrysalis. Her main goal in life? Metamorphose into a butterfly and learn to fly! Papilio is a ...

When a caterpillar undergoes the complex biological process of metamorphosis, it does so inside of a pointy bean-shaped enclosure that many people like to call a cocoon. But despite popular belief, ...

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are perhaps one of the most well-known insects in North America. They are easily recognizable by their bright orange wings with black veins and their jet-black ...

A young man with a love for animals and insects has just learned about the “circle of life” the hard way. At just 3 years old, Ronnie Seddon has witnessed the miracle of birth, the joys of parenthood ...

The monarch butterfly was added to the IUCN Red List as "now endangered" last month — for many reasons. The insect is eaten as an egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, or bright orange and black colored ...

IT’S LIVE! Chrysalis Cam is up and running. Check back from time to to time to see how our future monarch butterflies are doing. Monarch butterflies go through four stages during one life cycle, and ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - The KARE 11 caterpillar is one step closer to becoming a beautiful monarch butterfly. On Saturday KARE 11 meteorologists Laura Betker and Jeff Edmonson noticed Friday that the ...