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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 ...

Glenda Eubanks of Solon immerses herself daily in one of the most mind-boggling miracles of nature — the fascinating life cycle of monarch butterflies. Sparked by the interest of a young granddaughter ...

In regards to Monarch extinction, I have been raising caterpillar eggs to monarchs and releasing them into the wild My milkweed plants and monarchs are producing at least 4four to six eggs every other ...

There’s something special about monarch butterflies in the Adirondacks. They are the last generation in a life cycle. Each September, they fly back to Mexico, and successive generations spend the rest ...