showing monarch fights.” Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that monarchs are in a cocoon during the stage between caterpillar and butterfly. They are in a chrysalis.

A historic railway was converted into a railbike path; now you can ride that railbike to see these beautifully made-over ...

A monarch butterfly caterpillar crawls on ... The next stage is the pupa or chrysalis. When the caterpillar makes the cocoon, it reminds Nelson of a little critter pulling up a green sleeping ...

It may seem weird that the monarch's caterpillars only eat milkweed ... in the chrysalis (the butterfly equivalent of the moth's cocoon). Its organs change in shape and size, its mouth changes ...

Monarch caterpillars have six true legs (three sets ... What’s the difference between a chrysalis and a cocoon? Cocoon and chrysalis are often used interchangeably when talking about monarchs ...

"It kind of looks like a little cocoon.” Hanging from the ... It takes a few weeks for a monarch to go from hungry caterpillar to spreading its wings. Bowlby says all it takes to raise them ...

Rosette Vincente’s face broadens in a wide smile as the monarch ... The caterpillar sheds its skin three times, growing larger each shedding. It then pupates, or spins a silken cocoon around ...