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, ...

The measured motion caught my eye: each inching step started with the caterpillar's tail end drawing forward to grasp the pine twig, humping the body high; the head end then letting go to stretch ...

As spring temperatures begin to rise across the Hoosier state, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is advising ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...