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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 ...

PORT BYRON, Ill. — Kindergarten at Riverdale Elementary School always means one thing: monarch butterflies. It's a longstanding tradition to teach a unit about the winged insect as students learn ...

Democratic senators pen letter to Navy secretary condemning Sen. Mark Kelly review Rubio directs diplomats to return to using ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – As a middle school teacher in Virginia Beach, Andrea Gengler witnessed kids making the transformation from child to adolescent. Now she has a passion and hobby of raising ...

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 ...

We’re killing butterflies by changing their homes, Rick Mikula warned. “The more asphalt we lay, the fewer butterflies we see. The more wildflowers we replace with hybrids and ornamentals, the fewer ...

With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly, new research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly researchers. Why are the ...

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 ...