That's all the waste the butterfly, née caterpillar ... Now, believe it or not, that gruesome process is how caterpillars earn their wings. Here's what you might not know about what's inside ...

The caterpillar crawls away from the milkweed plant in search of a safe spot to begin the pupa stage of the monarch butterfly life cycle. It uses spinnerets near its mouth to create a tiny silken pad.

Development is like a caterpillar that undergoes a process to improve itself. It turns into a beautiful butterfly and continuously adds speckles of colors to its wings as it matures and adapts to ...

The process of how caterpillars change into butterflies. Caterpillars grow, feed and then transform from a chrysalis to a beautiful colourful butterfly before our very eyes. This clip is from the ...

As a hand is unclasped and a butterfly is released, a sense of comfort and change can be felt. That is the idea behind the seventh-annual butterfly release scheduled for 1 p.m. Aug. 12 in the ...

There are so many amazing and marvelous aspects in nature. Take the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) for example. This may be the most familiar and recognized butterfly in North America, yet I ...