The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch butterfly life cycle. It uses spinnerets near its mouth to create a tiny silken pad.

But have you ever tried to delve into the life cycle of a butterfly to know how it grows up to look this fascinating. A butterfly comes across four stages in its life cycle. It starts out as a ...

On the surface, it was just a simple lesson about the life cycle of the monarch butterfly, a celebration of the last step in a journey toward freedom, of sorts — their migration to Mexico.

“The monarch butterfly life cycle is unique in that they have multiple generations present at one time. The super generation’s success is reliant on the previous generation’s success.

Much has to go right to keep the intricate and precarious life cycle of the monarch butterfly turning. For starters, there is the migration, a six-month process that takes successive generations ...