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 ...

For a naturalist, living in Texas definitely has its share of fringe benefits. The diversity of the flora and fauna that can be observed here is nothing short of amazing. One of the amazing feats of ...

On the surface, it was just a simple lesson about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, a celebration of the last step in a journey toward freedom, of sorts — their migration to Mexico. Under the ...

Just this past month the International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the migratory monarch butterfly on its Red List of Endangered Species. This has been a long time coming. Monarchs are the ...

Monarch butterflies are well known for their metamorphosis, transforming from hungry caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. University of Delaware alumna Stacy Wolff has spent 14 years teaching the ...

Master Gardeners also answer how to grow pumpkins in a small space. Question: My fourth grader learned in class that monarch butterflies are threatened and we need to “create a habitat” in our ...

The UT Arboretum Society's First Thursday Nature Supper Club's Zoom presentation on "The Mystery of Monarch Metamorphosis," by naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 1. "People ...

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 ...

In nature, a chrysalis typically contains the makings of just one new butterfly. At The Chrysalis: Monarch School’s Center for the Arts, there is room for a multitude of new lives to grow and take ...