As July sunlight pokes through the trees, a butterfly egg rests gently in Wojciech Poreba’s palm as he sifts through milkweed leaves at Hamlet Park in Cottage Grove. At age 25, Poreba has four years ...

SANCTUARIES AND MEMORIALS. DONNA THOMPSON SAYS THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY MAY BE ENDANGERED BUT NOT IN HER GARDEN. SHE HAS 600 EGGS THAT SHE RAISES FROM CATERPILLARS TO CHRYSALIS THEN TO BEAUTIFUL MONARCH ...

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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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Monarch butterflies are a beautiful and important species in Minnesota, but sometimes their eggs are endangered by those who want to get rid of the native plants that they crave.

An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...

It is high season at the Monarch Pollinator Garden. Plant the right kind of milkweed: Milkweed is the only plant monarchs will lay eggs on. But you must plant the right kind for Sonoma County. There ...

Marvelous Monarchs: The butterflies are free - all you need is patience and milkweed George Carlin once observed that "the caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity." Not ...

Sara Bartholomew was shocked one day mid-month when she saw her first monarch of the season in Rock Island. "I thought it must have been a fluke," she said. Then she looked out into her Davenport yard ...

We have conducted a number of monarch butterfly and milkweed classes over the last three years. The classes hosted over 450 attendees and distributed 900 milkweed seeded containers to gardeners in the ...

She gave us a small takeout bowl containing our three cats and a couple of swamp milkweed leaves. The cats were a centimeter long, at most, but even at that size, the characteristic yellow, black, and ...