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 ...

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Young children are often taught that caterpillars form a chrysalis and transform into butterflies. However, the exact details of metamorphosis aren’t always clarified due to the complicated biological ...

A visually detailed study of the swallowtail butterfly’s life cycle, captured entirely through extreme close-up photography. Without narration, the film relies on striking imagery to document the ...

Autumn heralds the historic annual migration of millions of monarch butterflies passing through Southern California en route to their winter home in Mexico. Thought to be facing possible extinction ...

One of the best-known poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins opens with a tribute to the phenomenon of iridescence. It’s represented by the colorful wings of kingfishers and dragonflies in Hopkins’ poem, but ...

The Butterfly Process, an emerging educational initiative, aims to address stereotypes in Puccini’s opera and beyond — with modern, multiracial audiences in mind The first time Melanie Bacaling saw ...