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Q: This summer I've been growing monarch butterflies. That is, I planted milkweed and nature did the rest. The striped black, white and yellow monarch caterpillars form a lovely jade green and gold ...

These garden caterpillars are friends, not foes! Learn which caterpillars won't hurt you or your plants, and how to identify ...

Our neighbor Mary has a small patch of milkweed behind her potting shed. It’s shaded by a young sassafras tree, and some Japanese stilt grass is pushing its way in as well. We use neighbor John and ...

Karen Richards / KLCC A small nonprofit in rural Douglas County is a key player in monarch butterfly research and conservation on the West Coast. The Elkton Community Education Center houses a replica ...

A monarch butterfly perches on a flower on July 28, in a field near Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor. Credit: Courtesy of Aislinn Sarnacki “Mission Monarch complete,” I said, grinning as I emerged from ...

I have not seen where the Hempfield Township supervisors, in their infinite collective wisdoms and forethoughts, saved the monarch caterpillars’ chrysalis and milkweed before leveling the ground for ...

An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...