CHICAGO (WCIA) — A new study finds anyone with a green thumb, urban or rural, can help save the population of a beloved insect. Scientists are worried for monarch butterflies, the orange and black ...

When Lorraine Kells first came upon these two sprawling Chicago Park District flower beds near Diversey Harbor, she saw weeds and cigarette butts. But eight years later, a dazzling array of ...

It’s garden planning time. If planning a flower garden to attract monarch butterflies, there’s interesting research from the University of Kentucky about placement of milkweed in gardens. The research ...

When artist Shawn Hall took a close look at the flowering plants in Crescent Park, she noticed something that made her curious. “I was looking at the milkweed and there was a monarch caterpillar on it ...

Perhaps you’ve read about and noticed the declining numbers of monarch butterflies? If you’d like to help, and you want to attract more monarchs to your garden, consider adding milkweed (Asclepias spp ...

Monarch butterflies, with their striking orange and black wings, are some of the most recognizable butterflies in North America. But they're in trouble. Monarch caterpillars can only eat the leaves of ...

The orange and black Monarch butterfly is a well known and recognizable species. But in 2022, it was listed as endangered. As a group, these spectacular migratory creatures move about 2,485 miles ...

The Midwest needs to plant milkweed, and a lot of it, over the next 18 years to ensure monarch butterflies survive, preferably in sufficient numbers to sustain their phenomenal migration. In Illinois, ...

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(CN) - Cities will grow exponentially in decades to come, and while wildlife conservation has seldom factored into city planning, a pair of studies found Thursday that urban centers can play a key ...

On a recent warm afternoon, a monarch butterfly landed on a milkweed flower growing at the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island. The monarch’s orange and black wings opened and closed slowly as it ...

What exactly is a “weed?” From a gardener’s point of view, a weed is simply a plant growing where you don’t want it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American poet and philosopher who lived from 1803-82, said ...