It takes 10 days to two weeks for a monarch to transform from a pupating caterpillar to an adult. “I fell in love with monarchs when I found a chrysalis and watched this butterfly slowly emerge ...

Monarchs’ scientific name, Danaus plexippus, is Greek for “sleepy transformation”: a poetic description of the metamorphosis that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch butterflies only flap their ...

VERNON — Vernon is an entry point for monarch butterflies migrating north from their ... The kids would watch them transform from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly over the span of a couple weeks.

McCloskey has been saving butterflies since she discovered some Monarch caterpillars in her ... as each caterpillar formed a soft jade green chrysalis for their final stage of transformation.

The king of butterflies is under threat, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is proposing a “threatened” classification under the Endangered Species Act.

Monarchs’ scientific name, Danaus plexippus, is Greek for “sleepy transformation”: a poetic description of the metamorphosis that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch butterflies only flap their ...