Michael F. Braby is Chief Editor of Austral Entomology, and has been researching butterflies for 30 years. This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids ...

Papilio is an enthusiastic and adventurous caterpillar. Then she's a blob of goo, hanging out in her chrysalis. Her main goal in life? Metamorphose into a butterfly and learn to fly! Papilio is a ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...