These garden caterpillars are friends, not foes! Learn which caterpillars won't hurt you or your plants, and how to identify ...

Monarch butterflies have multiple generations in a year, including the final one, which migrates south to wintering grounds ...

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 ...

Swallowtail caterpillars use a unique osmeterium defense that releases foul odors—learn how it works and what it smells like.

When I was in fourth grade, I had a teacher that invited us to bring in the caterpillar precursor of a monarch butterfly. She ...

If you’re a good butterfly gardener, your garden is filled with nectar flowers. If you’re a great butterfly gardener, your garden also includes a variety of host plants, the plants that caterpillars ...

Young children are often taught that caterpillars form a chrysalis and transform into butterflies. However, the exact details of metamorphosis aren’t always clarified due to the complicated biological ...

Maybe science has misunderstood the dining style of big monarch butterfly caterpillars. What insect watchers have called defense against the toxic latex a milkweed plant oozes may not be avoidance at ...

The Yankton Community Library (YCL) will be hosting a family storytime on Monday, May 4, at 6 p.m.