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 ...

Pacific Grove is known as ‘Butterfly Town USA’ for its role as an overwintering spot. As the insect’s population plummets, residents are coming to its rescue ...

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, ...

Community members are invited to Goleta’s Ellwood Mesa Monarch Butterfly Habitat Management Plan (MBHMP) workshop, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12 in the Ellwood Elementary School auditorium, 7686 ...

For so many people, the classroom transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is one of their earliest experiences with science and nature. Which is why it’s so distressing to know that the ...

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, ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. “What happens inside a chrysalis during metamorphosis?” asked Chris, writing from ...