"I understand that it is important to notice and accept the parts of myself I don't want to see, but I can't change myself ...

A pair of researchers, one from Oxford University, the other with the Natural History Museum in London, has found a way to grow butterfly wings in their lab. In their paper published in Bioinspired, ...

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 ...

Like doubtless many others through time, Richard Stringer was watching a beautiful monarch butterfly emerge from its chrysalis and wondered about the miracle of it all. But unlike all the others, the ...

In elementary school, we learn that caterpillars turn into butterflies and moths through a process called metamorphosis. But what really goes on within the hardened chrysalis has continued to puzzle ...

In this episode of Adirondack Selections, Emily Russell and Dr. Curt Stager unpack the monarch butterfly's life cycle, from chrysalis to caterpillar to butterfly.

(Phys.org) —Two British research teams have begun using micro-CT scanners to watch butterfly pupae develop into butterflies while still alive inside their chrysalis shells. The first team did so as a ...

IT’S LIVE! Chrysalis Cam is up and running. Check back from time to to time to see how our future monarch butterflies are doing. Monarch butterflies go through four stages during one life cycle, and ...

For the past 16 years, Kelly Burford of the Owen County Soil Conservation office has dedicated countless hours to raising and ...