Armed with a small trowel, I leaned over on my hands and knees on a hot evening in August and carefully tried to rescue our fledgling butterfly garden. Aggressive ivy had wrapped around the little ...

Butterflies come in many different colors and patterns. You can help your child learn about butterflies (and even one very special migrating butterfly — the monarch) by rearing butterflies and ...

Jason Hoover's porch is lined with mesh cages for monarchs. (Cris Barrish/WHYY) “Oh Mike, look! Your butterfly just emerged,” Jason Hoover calls to Mike Yingling across their connected porches in ...

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All the Monarch butterfly actors and props were on the stage: A grassy meadow, red, yellow and blue pollinator flowers, ample milkweed and a soft, Southern Indiana evening. Some 82 lightly caged ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — I designed my garden to attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, specifically Monarchs. A family in Eastlake is doing the same. "I went out and bought Milkweed and ...

This means actually BEING outside. He suggests putting the eggs and caterpillars in mesh cages with plastic or cloth on the top to protect them from sun and rain. "Overall, the results (of research) ...

About 30 monarch butterflies are emerging from their cocoons in urban Maryville this week, not in a forest or field, but on a service desk at the Blount County Public Library. That’s where Youth ...

Joel Enge poses for a portrait with monarch butterflies at Kingdom Life Academy's garden in Tyler, Texas, on May 12. Enge has been raising butterflies as a hobby for 16 years and typically does a ...

Surrounded by shoulder-high butterfly bushes and other plants as monarch butterflies flit in the warm afternoon sun in her Westland backyard, Brenda Dziedzic is succinct about what she does for a ...

The students loved the project and Enge continued ordering and raising painted ladies from California with them until he found out about monarch butterflies and ordered the caterpillars from a local ...