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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holmen resident Scott Marshall has become a butterfly farmer, raising monarchs in his home. By raising the insects in his home, Marshall is doing his part to ensure more become adults than they would ...

For those interested in the migration of monarchs, Searl recommends the Sept. 8 monarch migration event planned at the Lakeside Nature Center in Galesburg. The center, at 1033 S. Lake Storey Rd., will ...

From the day I bought my first milkweed plant to the day my last monarch flew the coop a month later, I was wholly consumed by the magic and mysterious science of a monarch butterfly's lifecycle. It ...