The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes time to reach this stage of its adult life.

Cecropia Moth Caterpillar Michael Hodge / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 These plump green bruisers, found throughout the U.S. and Canada, grow to be over four inches long.

Colorful, exotic, subtly fragrant and, OK, kind of weird, the colonies of butterfly-like yellow flowers shower the surrounding broad, green leaves with a fiesta of lemony blooms.

CHICAGO (CBS)-- A Pilsen couple are using their green thumbs for a cause. As CBS 2's Marybel González reported Monday night, the couple have already transformed their entire home into a butterfly ...

Scientists have for the first time genetically engineered a butterfly, inserting a jellyfish gene into an African butterfly so that its eyes fluoresce green. EYE FOR EYES.