The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life.

You will know a monarch butterfly is about to emerge from its chrysalis when the color shifts from vibrant green to dark brown. Monarch butterflies are unique in their chrysalis form, as they form ...

A chrysalis, by the way, is a term used only for butterflies. If it’s another insect, it’s called a pupa. Inside the chrysalis, some parts of the caterpillar literally dissolve.

The most recognizable and loved butterfly in North America, especially in Pennsylvania, is the graceful, soaring, large monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) with its colorful orange wings… ...

A monarch butterfly perches on milkweed at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, in May. Farming and other human activity have wiped out huge swaths of its native milkweed ...

Many people are under the impression that the Monarch is the only species of butterfly that migrates; however, there is another species of butterfly that also makes a long airborne journey that ...

The mass migration of monarch butterflies from eastern Canada and the United States to isolated mountain ranges in central Mexico certainly rates as one of the most impressive natural phenomena in ...

Ten to 14 days later —the chrysalis turning transparent in the process — a Monarch butterfly emerges; it’s body incomplete, its wings small and crumpled. The Monarch grows, pumps fluid into ...

Doris Nelson examines the chrysalis and a newly emerged monarch butterfly at her Long Lake home north of Pine River Monday, July 17, 2023. Steve Kohls / Brainerd Dispatch After 11 to 12 days, the ...

How Long Do Monarch Butterflies Live? According to Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón, the National Wildlife Federation’s (NWF) monarch recovery strategist, monarch butterflies generally only live 28 to ...

Yingling is admiring a monarch butterfly that in the last hour had spilled out of its pupal case — the nearly monthlong process from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to emergence at last completed. The ...