The Queen, like other butterfly species, undergoes a four-stage life cycle that can be described as nothing short of miraculous. In the beginning stage, their life begins as an egg, which hatches ...

Monarchs have migrated north for the summer, but you can attract these butterflies to your garden with the right plants and ...

Like its close relative the Monarch, the Queen is a poisonous species of butterfly, said to be quite bitter and distasteful. As such, the Viceroy, another species of butterfly, has adapted to look ...

The humble caterpillar has done its job and will soon emerge as a beautiful butterfly or moth. Texas has over 400 kinds of butterflies and moths, so their caterpillars can be challenging to identify.

But in an experiment, a butterfly pupa pretending to be an ant queen was placed in a chamber with worker ants and four real ant queens. The ant queens began to attack and bite the caterpillar, but ...

"The monarch caterpillar is an eating machine," Kiphart says, explaining it will grow 2,000 times its body weight. "If when I was born I weighed 7 pounds, when I was ready to pupate, I would weigh ...

Apr 18, 2017 Apr 18, 2017Updated Dec 8, 2017 Courtesy Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Name: Queen butterfly, aka Danaus gilippus ...

Viceroy butterflies mimic a queen butterfly's awful-taste, but only when they aren't around CBC Radio · Posted: Mar 15, 2019 1:04 PM PDT | Last Updated: March 15, 2019 ...

Mimicry in viceroy butterflies is dependent on abundance of the model queen butterfly. Communications Biology, 2019; 2 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0303-z ...