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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maureen Dime’s magical garden in Del Mar has become a welcome spot for hundreds of monarch butterflies. Over the last 13 years, so many butterflies have flourished and fluttered in her front yard that ...

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 ...

While I suspect the majority of people here in Texas have seen a monarch butterfly, most probably don’t know that they make ...

Monarch butterflies travel through Oklahoma, but lately, we're seeing fewer of them than ever before. Aaron Walton plants milkweed at his south Tulsa home to try to save monarch butterflies. He’s ...

The monarch butterfly life cycle begins with a whirl of wings in the heat of the summer sun. As a female monarch sips nectar from a wildflower, a male hovers nearby. A pheromone is released from tiny ...

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 ...