Most adult butterflies live for about a month ... “There’s a huge variety of milkweed, and monarch caterpillars will eat every single kind,” said Deborah Gritton, the co-executive director ...
The annual migration of monarch butterflies ... As the butterflies pass through Oklahoma, they seek out milkweed plants, the sole food source for their caterpillars. These orange and black insects ...
Whether it’s a small striped caterpillar or a tiny translucent butterfly egg, she will mark down what she finds and send the numbers to a national conservation group. Aphids and milkweed beetles crawl ...
He's on the lookout for butterfly eggs, caterpillars and chrysalises at the Cincinnati Nature Center. But, despite milkweed’s critical part in a monarch’s life cycle, John Blakeman ...