Several days later, the female is ready to lay eggs ... The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a ...

The film explores the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly, detailing its remarkable migration journey of up to 6,000 ...

Monarch butterflies are poisonous to predators because of the chemicals in the milkweed they eat as caterpillars. In just the 9 to 14 days of the larval stage, a monarch caterpillar ... A typical ...

Did you know that monarch butterflies traverse the Volunteer State on their seasonal migration? Read on to learn when they'll ...

Journey North uses volunteer-submitted data to track the migration. On Monday, the state’s first sighting was recorded in ...

The Waquoit Congregational Church is offering a free presentation on how to raise monarch butterflies through their different life stage, from egg to caterpillar to butterfly, on Sunday, May 25, ...

We spoke with Victoria Burnett, a Visitor Services Manager working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get some insight ...

The monarch ... lay a set of eggs to produce the first of five generations of caterpillars for the year’s migration. The adults that lay the eggs will die to be replaced by the butterflies ...

Milkweed (Asclepias) is the only plant on which monarch butterflies will deposit eggs, and from which their larvae will feed. “Milkweed is important,” according to McGaffin, “but it is just ...