All the Monarch butterfly actors and props were on the stage: A grassy meadow, red, yellow and blue pollinator flowers, ample milkweed and a soft, Southern Indiana evening. Some 82 lightly caged ...

Professor Elizabeth Crone, Department of Evolution and Ecology, checks a non-native milkweed in the San Francisco Bay Area for monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars. Known for long-distance ...

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Retired schoolteacher Tachi Dellinger pointed inside a mesh box, where three green chrysalises hung. “This one is starting to change color,” Dellinger said. “It will turn jet black ... when it's ready ...

NORFOLK — A few weeks ago at The Hague School, environmental biology and chemistry teacher Karen Spencer, along with a crew of parents, planted beds of milkweed, which is the sole host plant for ...

I’ve grown a bit obsessed with monarch butterflies. And who could blame me? It’s hard to imagine a more charming creature, with its stunning orange and black wings that enable a delicate, fluttering ...