The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes time to reach this stage of its adult life. Understanding a few facts about the process lets you observe it in nature with ease ...

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 ...

Linda Auld is widely known as the "NOLA Bug Lady," as she has raised 147 species of butterflies and moths — photographing and studying the life cycles of these insects. For more than 30 years, she has ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — Learning in the field was definitely the goal for two northwest Ohio science teachers who went on a field trip thousands of miles away. Their adventure could help save the iconic ...

CLARENCE, N.Y. — This Saturday at Bidwell Park in Buffalo, a butterfly release will entertain the young and old alike. But the mission behind the release is to resonate a message of environmentalism, ...

Nine monarch caterpillars that emerged late in the season would have faced certain death had an Evergreen Park man not ...

Rolesville recognized for environmental efforts under the Mayors' Monarch Pledge, aiding monarch butterfly conservation.

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After Kathy Marshburn lost a child, she didn’t know how she’d move on. Violet was only two months old when she died unexpectedly, of a heart condition, in 2002. Marshburn, who lived in the Houston ...

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