The paper kite butterfly, native to Asia, is light yellow or off-white with an elaborate pattern of swooping black lines and dots.But its chrysalis—a hard case that protects the caterpillar ...

Milkweed serves as the only host plant for Monarch caterpillars, providing both food and shelter. ... you invite the enchanting Blue Morpho Butterfly to grace your garden with its stunning presence.

The caterpillar eats species of the pipevine, which probably makes it bad-tasting to predators. Though its conservation status is least concern, ... Blue Morpho Butterfly, ...

Shiny Morpho butterflies are prized for their intense, shiny blue. ... Their stunning microphotographs document how you build a shiny butterfly from a caterpillar. Two kinds of cells are involved; ...

The exhibit also includes dozens of butterflies from other parts of the world, like the blue morpho, which is native to Mexico, and Central and South America. They are one of the largest butterfly ...

The full grown morpho rhetenor butterfly, a native to South America. (Image credit: University of Southhampton.) What goes on in a cocoon as a caterpillar changes into a butterfly remains one of ...

The transformation from caterpillar to butterfly is one of the most exquisite in the natural world. Within the chrysalis, an inching, cylindrical eating machine remakes itself into a beautiful ...

The full grown morpho rhetenor butterfly, a native to South America. The blue morpho butterfly shows off its brightly colored wings when in flight. But at rest, with closed wings, the butterfly ...

The state fair's popular butterfly exhibit, inside the Horticulture Building, will feature for the first time butterflies from other countries. It's a first for SkyRiver Butterflies, which worked ...