It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

If you know about monarch butterflies, you’ve probably also learned about — or even witnessed! — their incredible life cycle. Take a look at milkweed plants during summer months, and you might spot an ...

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Monarchs continue to be some of the most fascinating butterflies the world has ever seen, but the decline in the Monarch population is alarming. WDBJ7 sat down with a certified ...

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A Conneaut Valley kindergarten class observed the life cycle of monarch caterpillars with help from a local enthusiast. Monarch caterpillars exclusively eat milkweed and go through five molting stages ...

Monarch butterflies undergo a complete metamorphosis, or a four-part life cycle. Life begins as a tiny egg, which soon hatches an elfin larva, or caterpillar. The caterpillar does much of the heavy ...

Butterflies (Papilionoidea) come in a remarkable variety of colors and patterns, from the orange majesty of the monarch to the lustrous red and blue of the peacock butterfly, but all butterflies ...

Every fall, an incredible migration occurs through the state of Indiana, where millions of tiny monarch butterflies fly on their way to overwintering grounds in Mexico, only to return in the spring to ...

GRAYSLAKE — It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson ...