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Q: How would you suggest schools teach the life cycle of caterpillars becoming butterflies? A: Monarch butterflies are the best known of California’s butterflies, however due to their population ...

Monarch butterflies are well known for their metamorphosis, transforming from hungry caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. University of Delaware alumna Stacy Wolff has spent 14 years teaching the ...

It happens to every nature enthusiast at least once. You spot an orange butterfly with black markings hovering around a pretty flower and say, “Oh, look, it’s a monarch!” Except, on closer inspection, ...

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Tall spikes of deep purple liatris blooms sway in the breeze of a training area. Among the flowers, volunteers clad in bright safety vests are scattered, their eyes sharp and ...

The monarch butterfly is easily identified by its bold orange, black and white coloring. This fascinating insect goes through an amazing life cycle consisting of four stages: egg, larvae, pupa, and ...

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

Great Neck’s Cynthia Zhang, 17, was always interested in nature, but it was a moment witnessing the metamorphosis of a monarch butterfly that led to her pursuing her own environmental action. “It’s ...

Arkansas is a great place to spot monarch butterflies as it falls directly in their migration path! While monarch butterflies travel through Arkansas in both the spring (late March to April) and the ...