The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

Learn which monarch butterfly predators and parasites pose a real threat to their survival, and which are part of the natural ...

Monarchs undergo a four-stage life cycle and rely solely on milkweed plants for their egg and caterpillar stages. Monarchs in eastern North America migrate up to 3,000 miles to overwinter in Mexico.

MANY READERS surely have memories of witnessing that late summer ritual of the metamorphosis of the monarch butterfly captured in a jar. After stuffing itself with greenery for several weeks, ...

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I’VE TALKED ABOUT monarch butterflies before in this column, but a couple of things happened recently that inspired me to talk about them again. Plus monarchs always make me think of grammar school, ...