“Butterflies!” The cute little 4-year-old boldly shouted when someone asked her where pixie dust comes from. That memory was on my mind on a somewhat drab weekday morning recently as I stepped through ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS - Two local researchers are cranking out thousands of monarch butterflies this summer as ...

SALISBURY — Last weekend, Salisbury had a hand in one of the largest natural migrations taking place across the U.S., and it happened in a flutter. Hurley Park hosted the annual monarch butterfly ...

A butterfly with a broken wing means almost certain death. But Janine Bendicksen, of Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, was determined to see one monarch butterfly survive. Bendicksen said she’s ...

The Meadow View Grower’s Butterfly and Monarch Habitat in New Carlisle will reopen for its sixth year on Monday. At the reopening, which is also the start of National Pollinator Week, a majority of ...

Students at Libertyville High School have been raising Monarch butterflies in an effort to help support the migrating population, as the species starts its journey from Northern Illinois to Mexico.