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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 ...

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Monarch butterfly populations have nearly doubled this year, an annual survey of the species found. At the end of each summer, the beloved pollinators migrate from southern Canada and the northern and ...

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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 ...