When you start a butterfly garden, you want to make sure you have food for the insects at all stages of their life cycle. This means planting specific larval host plants like milkweed for monarchs, ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar ...

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The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New ...

Blindfolded insect larvae opted to perch on twigs matching their body coloring about 80 percent of the time Arjen v'ant Hof Prior to the Industrial Revolution, most peppered moths sported speckled ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Recently, a few insects, including the caterpillar larva of the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella, have been identified as avid ...

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 ...