WAVERLY - The grass is tall. The evening air heavy. The sticky weather and prickly things do little to discourage the hunters, three girls bent on catching a butterfly or two. Armed with nets, sisters ...

FOREST CITY | The Winnebago County Conservation Board's annual monarch tagging program will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, at the Thorpe Park shelterhouse. The tagging program is part of a larger ...

Rebecca Zerlin spent her Saturday afternoon catching butterflies at a registered Monarch Butterfly Waystation in the King William neighborhood as a part of a large-scale program to tag the migrating ...

The WCCB will host a Monarch butterfly tagging program Sept. 7. Monarch butterflies break from the rigors of migration to gather nectar from the flowers of a rough blazing star. Winnebago County ...

A monarch butterfly with a tag on its wing perches on a flower head at Monarch Watch's butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. Monarch Watch is contributing to a ...

Before National Geographic published its famous August 1976 cover story detailing the search for the monarch butterfly’s wintering grounds, nobody knew where these strikingly beautiful creatures ...