Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The annual monarch butterfly program is set for Aug. 21 at 6 p.m. at the Church of the Apostles in Waynesboro. According to a ...

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 ...

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, ...

Pesticides, habitat loss and climate change have taken their toll on the beloved insects. But the experts working with them ...

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Five blocks of Sheridan Road in Zion going north to Shiloh Boulevard were lined with zinnias last weekend before a right turn to the Zion Park District Bandshell, where scores of locally raised ...

The monarch butterfly is Illinois' state insect and has held that distinction for 50 years — having been suggested for the honor by third grade classes in Decatur in 1975. But the butterfly is also in ...

“We are but small butterflies in the garden of life.” – Carston D. Roach.

A few years ago, after seeing the film “Flight of the Butterflies” at The Wild Center, my daughter started our own monarch habitat. It has been a slow process. Mother Nature has a plan for everything ...

The monarch butterfly has long faced threats that have led to dwindling populations. However, a new study aimed at pinpointing one of the "whys" behind this issue suggested that warmer temperatures ...

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 ...