Monarch butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis, or a four-part life cycle. Life begins as a tiny egg, which soon hatches an elfin larva, or caterpillar. The caterpillar does much of the heavy ...

A painted lady perches on a flower. Ennio Borgato / iNaturalist CC By-SA 4.0 On a warm summer morning in Ypres, Belgium, 66-year-old Sylvain Cuvelier steps into his blooming garden with his ...

They don’t roar, sting, or make much noise– but butterflies still manage to hold their own in nature. Their colourful wings aren’t just pretty to look at; they’ve evolved over time to help them ...

Every winter, a marvelous spectacle occurs as hundreds of thousands of butterflies travel south across Taiwan in one of the ...

Pipevine swallowtail, American snout, sleepy orange, red-banded hairstreak — just saying the names of butterfly species found around Tulsa makes the tongue dance. One of Oxley Nature Center naturalist ...