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Monarch
Exploring Nature, November 2025
Nature highlights for November!
Autumn Trails
Come with me on another nature outing. Why is “fall” a name for this lovely season? What falls in the fall?
Exploring Nature, August 2025
Puffin rescue…migrations… August nature highlights.
Pictures & Poems, August 2025
Enjoy our readers’ artwork submissions from the August issue.
Pictures & Poems, July 2025
Children’s drawings and poetry from the June issue.
Flying Gems
On May 22, I saw it—a black swallowtail afloat on the breeze. Now was the time.
Exploring Nature, January 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Find frost flowers or ice needles. These occur when the air is icy cold yet the soil is still above freezing and plant roots are active. In mid-January...
Creation Close-ups, December 2023
Study Guide Puzzles, October 2023
Pictures & Poems, June 2023
In Search of Monarchs
They say ignorance is bliss. In some ways, I wish I had never taken that summer evening walk.“Mom, could I head out and look for monarchs again?”I’d waited long enough, I thought, for the...
The Tachinid Fly Disaster
Photo © JjGouin/Dreamstime.com. I guess it started when a lady said she had a monarch caterpillar for us along with some milkweed to feed it. Although we didn’t know if it would turn out to be a he...
Wildflower Art Contest Winners: Age 12 and Younger
Bloodroot, trout lilies, spring beauties. Artwork © Julia Plichta. Monarch on black-eyed Susan. Artwork © Daniel Martin. Knotweed. Artwork © Kendra Klaassen. Lotus. Artwork © Caleb...
