Will and Karen Collier of Bettendorf love raising monarch butterflies by gathering eggs and caterpillars and bringing them inside to develop. After a slow start to the season they had, as of Wednesday ...

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 ...

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 ...