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 ...

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Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

A monarch butterfly extracts itself from its chrysalis on Monday, June 19, 2023, within a protective enclosure at the Orlan Love residence in Quasqueton. (Orlan Love/correspondent) Buy Photo Much has ...

I have not seen where the Hempfield Township supervisors, in their infinite collective wisdoms and forethoughts, saved the monarch caterpillars’ chrysalis and milkweed before leveling the ground for ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

PINE RIVER — Doris Nelson's mistake helped approximately 600 monarchs successfully make the transition from caterpillar to stunning butterfly. The retired nurse and her husband, Larry, live north of ...

The most recognizable and loved butterfly in North America, especially in Pennsylvania, is the graceful, soaring, large monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) with its colorful orange wings, ...