Raising butterflies from the larval stage to the adult stage can be a satisfying and educational hobby. It allows you to observe the amazing transformational metamorphosis at home within the safety of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Within the past few years, Dan Hill has unintentionally spread the importance and fun of raising monarch butterflies to family and friends. Several years ago, the retired Germantown area resident ...

It’s National Pollinator Week, an annual event created to bring attention to the sharp decline in pollinator numbers due to habitat loss, pesticide use and climate change. Butterflies often capture ...