Jo Nagai, a 10-year-old Japanese student, is drawing global attention after his butterfly experiments suggested memories ...

That's why videos documenting any portion of the monarch life cycle continue to captivate viewers online. A recent Instagram ...

Fill your herb garden with black swallowtail butterflies. Learn what the caterpillar, eggs and adult butterflies look like.

A black swallowtail caterpillar spends weeks doing little besides eating dill and other carrot-family plants, but this ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. NASHVILLE — After all my blue false indigo was killed by a late frost, I went down to ...

Caterpillars and butterflies have been a part of classrooms since the very beginning of a child’s schooling. At an early age, almost every kid knows that a caterpillar will eat leaves, cocoon itself, ...

A young man with a love for animals and insects has just learned about the “circle of life” the hard way. At just 3 years old, Ronnie Seddon has witnessed the miracle of birth, the joys of parenthood ...

Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests. The nest owners, none the wiser, cherish, brood, and raise them. In the insect world, there is something that puts the cuckoo to shame. Caterpillars of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It's such wonderful warm weather in the UK at ...

Online sales of caterpillar kits are booming, and the chance to watch an insect turn into a butterfly has caught the imaginations of every age group in the age of social distancing. By Alyson Krueger ...