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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 ...

It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It’s also hard to believe that the life cycle of this incredibly colorful ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — A newly emerged Monarch butterfly rests on 8-year-old Beckett Mautner’s nose. Her sister Dexter, 11, has her hands full holding more on as the sun beams on a September afternoon ...

“By then, the local monarchs had already visited my plants and laid their eggs, so we just moved them in there,” she says. Lake says she has spent a lot of time researching how similar projects got up ...