While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...

MANY READERS surely have memories of witnessing that late summer ritual of the metamorphosis of the monarch butterfly captured in a jar. After stuffing itself with greenery for several weeks, ...

Community members are invited to Goleta’s Ellwood Mesa Monarch Butterfly Habitat Management Plan (MBHMP) workshop, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 in the Ellwood Elementary School auditorium, 7686 ...

I’VE TALKED ABOUT monarch butterflies before in this column, but a couple of things happened recently that inspired me to talk about them again. Plus monarchs always make me think of grammar school, ...

For so many people, the classroom transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of their earliest experiences with science and nature. Which is why it’s so distressing to know that the ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. “What happens inside a chrysalis during metamorphosis?” asked Chris, writing from ...