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

“It’s very much a race against time,” he says. That’s because the approximately 200 blue morpho butterflies inside are in their chrysalis stage and only a couple of days from emerging. In the meantime ...

“Looks like an old one,” Diaz said, pointing out the tattered edges lacing the butterfly’s wings. In the life of a Fender’s blue, “old” means just nine or 10 days.

New Butterfly Research Takes Wing In N.H.'s Karner Blue Pine Barrens 04:23 June 17, 2019 Annie Ropeik, New Hampshire Public Radio ...