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 ...
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 ...
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 community announcement, the event will be hosted by the UCC pollinator and ...
Magnolia Montgomery, age 12, peered into a rectangular enclosure covered with white mesh. Inside are milkweed branches. Caterpillars are slowly crawling on the leaves, some the size of a grain of rice ...
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 ...
With vigorous debate surrounding the health of the monarch butterfly population, newly-released research from the University of Georgia may have answered the biggest question plaguing butterfly ...
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