In elementary school, we learn that caterpillars turn into butterflies and moths through a process called metamorphosis. But what really goes on within the hardened chrysalis has continued to puzzle ...

The butterfly life cycle is a four-stage process of complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, and adult butterfly.

As children, many of us learn about the wondrous process by which a caterpillar morphs into a butterfly. The story usually begins with a very hungry caterpillar hatching from an egg. The caterpillar, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From caterpillar to butterfly is a miracle of metamorphosis of the monarch butterfly in West Palm Beach. Marvelous Monarchs: The ...

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 ...

Have you ever watched a caterpillar transform into a butterfly? A caterpillar does this through a process that requires it to stop eating, hang itself upside down from a twig, wiggle from its skin ...

A WFSU producer and his family raise monarch caterpillars, watch them become butterflies. Over the summer, WFSU Ecology producer Rob Diaz de Villegas found a few monarch caterpillars in his garden ...

One of the best-loved sights outside is a brightly colored butterfly. Surprisingly, the life of the showy butterfly depends on the humble, inconspicuous caterpillar that precedes it. Fritillaries, ...