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 ...

Before then, I encountered botanical learning in the field from Waldo Bailey, Roger Brown, Alvah Sanborn, Rick Oltsch, David St. James, and others whose names I have forgotten. In those years, I had ...

Most clothes-drying racks are draped full of shirts, pants and socks. It's not every day that you find a drying rack abounding with butterflies in all stages. But Duluthian Tom Uecker uses the ...