A chrysalis goes through multiple changes during the brief time that a monarch butterfly is inside. Initially, the pupa is bright green, slowly covering up the rings of green, yellow, and black of ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is encouraging wildlife enthusiasts to help Monarch butterflies ...

The encouragement on the r/NativePlantGardening subreddit thread may not just be because of the beauty of this particularly ...

Even so, it wasn’t quite what I expected. Tending the monarchs was more complex. Since the 1990s, Monarch butterfly populations have been in decline, experiencing an estimated 86% drop since 1996.

Extreme heat and dry weather is killing off food sources for monarch butterflies, an expert warns. The lack of food will make ...

Contact: DID YOU KNOW? Monarchs’ scientific name, Danaus plexippus, is Greek for “sleepy transformation”: a poetic description of the metamorphosis that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch ...

This week’s photos include a few of the many monarch chrysalis photos we’ve taken, as well as a few other lepidopterans found on the student farm. If you’d like to keep up with a live update of all ...

Monarch madness: Raising butterflies becomes family, friends project GERMANTOWN/BEAVERCREEK By Virginia Burroughs, Contributing Writer Sept 30, 2021 ...

With all the stress induced by the COVID-19 crisis, there is a lot of melting-down going around. Paul Hetzler looks at the monarch butterfly, which turns itself into caterpillar soup as a ...

Turns out, monarch butterflies are also feeling the impact on their food sources, a biologist says. The lack of food will ...