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 ...

The Monarch’s journey ... It then forms a chrysalis, a jade-green cocoon flecked with gold, where its body liquefies and transforms. After 10-14 days, an adult butterfly emerges, pumping blood ...

It was about eight months ago when construction worker Jeff Smith stumbled upon something in his garden that would quickly become his passion. “It was a complete accident, ” said the Buccaneer Point ...

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