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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 ...

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 ...

My life took an unexpected turn a week and a half ago when a friend of mine ended up having an unplanned hip replacement. Would I take care of her monarch butterfly nursery while she was laid up? Of ...

Head gardener Dave Searl says the center was packed with caterpillars and eggs last month, as well as plenty of monarchs and other pollinators enjoying the center’s gardens. In addition to those grown ...

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 ...

Professor Elizabeth Crone, Department of Evolution and Ecology, checks a non-native milkweed in the San Francisco Bay Area for monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars. Known for long-distance ...

The monarch butterflies are starting to come through San Antonio and the rest of Central Texas on their migration from Mexico to Canada. If you have milkweed growing in your landscape or area, they ...

Editor’s Note: This article has been republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of experts for the public good. The University ...

Monarch butterfly populations have nearly doubled this year, an annual survey of the species found. At the end of each summer, the beloved pollinators migrate from southern Canada and the northern and ...

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 ...