Bob Erlich, an Evergreen Park resident, has devoted his retirement years to promoting and caring for butterflies — and ...

The team of volunteers is trying to save monarch butterflies by cultivating milkweed — the only plant where they lay eggs.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...