By creating a garden that supports caterpillars, you’re nurturing the next generation of butterflies and moths and ...

Did you know that caterpillars come from butterfly eggs? See pictures of butterflies laying eggs on their host plants.

ROB PEREZ enters a patch of milkweed and finds CARTER THE CATERPILLAR on a half-eaten leaf. Carter is a medium-sized monarch ...

Monarch caterpillars eat 200 times their weight in milkweed and can devour a whole leaf in less than 5 minutes. Monarch butterflies are poisonous to predators because of the chemicals in the milkweed ...

Female monarchs exclusively lay their eggs on milkweed, and, as mentioned above, it's the only thing caterpillars will eat. Content continues below A dwindling milkweed population has a direct ...

"Most people associate monarchs with milkweed, and it’s true that their caterpillars dine exclusively on the leaves of these plants. Adult monarchs, however, will eat from a wide array of ...

The body mass of fifth-stage caterpillars has increased about 2,000-fold from first stage instars. Larvae must eat constantly to ingest enough milkweed to increase in mass so dramatically within a few ...

Those of us who eat corn or soy, or any of the foods that contain them, can't very well blame the farmers for milkweed's eradication, so scientists, conservationists, and butterfly enthusiasts are ...

Due to the increased use of herbicides in the U.S., milkweed, a plant vital for monarch reproduction, has declined, ultimately harming the butterfly population. The WWF recommends people ...