Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

The 16-part web-only series also looks at squirrels, vacant lots and migrating birds and butterflies.

Albany Park resident Jeff Skrentny runs the Facebook blog "My Year Birding at LaBagh Woods."

Like other cockroach babies, these Madagascar hissing cockroaches are white when they hatch.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will celebrate its origins as the Chicago Academy of Sciences.

The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee is first bee in America to be protected under Endangered Species Act.

Exchange your Christmas tree for free mulch at Fullerton Avenue and Cannon Drive.

Runners can begin the new year with a 5K through Lincoln Park.

Ordinance taking effect Jan. 1 requires all buildings to have their own recycling programs.

The eight-eyed spiders, which carry babies on their backs, move into homes when temperatures drop.

"Frogs: A Chorus of Colors" includes 70 species and hands-on elements like a virtual dissection.

The Atlas moth doesn't eat as an adult and lives only two weeks, so see it while you can.

The Blanding's turtle hatchlings at Notebaert museum are part of a 20-year project to save the reptiles.

Thousands of the insects will blanket Chicago this month, but they can't sting you.

Some female lightning bugs use their flash to attract males of other species, and then they eat them.

Wednesday's rain led to perfect conditions for the webs to appear across Chicago's front and back yards.