You've probably seen monarch butterflies, and maybe monarch caterpillars, but there's a lot to learn about the monarch life cycle stages.

For the first time ever, scientists have sequenced the internal bacterial makeup of the three major life stages of a butterfly species, a project that showed some surprising events occur during ...

Ring School kindergarten teacher Sydney Deppas holds a butterfly on her finger to show students in her class. Deppas and fellow kindergarten teacher Logan Negron spent the last several weeks ...

Most of us learned about butterfly metamorphosis as a kid — a wriggly caterpillar molts its skin to form a tough chrysalis and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. But how exactly do chrysalises stay ...

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 ...

Every spring without fail, the Virginia Living Museum receives several phone calls from people curious about the striped “worms” munching on their parsley plants. When callers find out these “worms” ...