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 ...

On a recent afternoon, Kate Baker, the gardener in charge of Botanica’s Butterfly House for the past five years, had to coax a few of the half-dozen or more newly hatched butterflies out of the ...

It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It’s also hard to believe that the life cycle of this incredibly colorful ...

Louisiana is home to numerous species of butterflies and, as the weather gets warmer, butterflies of various colors and patterns can be seen each year. Butterflies will hatch from their cocoons, or ...