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 ...

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 ...

A Monarch butterfly born in Canada will fly more than 3,000 miles to Mexico, across land it has never seen. Its journey is filled with peril, many never make it and those that do will never return.

The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in the ...

Want to see the metamorphosis process up close? A monarch butterfly house is available for viewing at the Mustard Seed Landscape and Garden Center in Chanhassen. Ward Johnson, co-director of Save ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign.

Lorain Mayor Jack Bradley has signed the National Wildlife Federation’s Mayors’ Monarch Pledge, officially committing the city to take four meaningful actions to help save the declining ...

Read more:Monarch butterflies proposed for ... which probably slowed butterfly breeding and the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies, said Emma Pelton, an endangered species biologist ...