Now, fully formed, it's time to hit the road. The chrysalis splits open down the center, and the butterfly escapes. Meanwhile, a reddish liquid spills out. That's all the waste the butterfly ...

Hays STEAM Academy will soon be alive with butterflies-to-be thanks to a $979.62 Teacher Assistance Program grant garnered by Instructional Coach Alisha Pierce. The grant, which comes through the ...

There's nothing quite like seeing a Monarch butterfly spread its wings and glide through the air. It can certainly provide a sense of calm to life's everyday stressors. But the monarch's numbers have ...

The Butterfly Experience in Brookside Gardens will be returning to the botanical garden in Wheaton Regional Park.

is Greek for “sleepy transformation”: a poetic description of the metamorphosis that happens in the chrysalis stage. Monarch butterflies only flap their wings around 5 to 12 times per second — much ...

When they’ve dried off and are prepared to fly, the butterflies let go of their chrysalises and fall to the ground. Yankoski and his team gather the morphos and release them in the Butterfly House, ...