With blazing stars, goldenrod, echinacea and asters in full glory — as well as gardens filled with annuals — keep an eye out for swallowtails fluttering between blooms in search of nectar. Similar in ...

Every butterfly gardener delights when showy swallowtail butterflies make an appearance. These butterflies are some of the largest in the garden, and their colorful wings and soaring flight patterns ...

Last week I had a picture of a dark form of the eastern tiger swallowtail with my column. The obvious question about any species with more than one color form is: What is the advantage? The advantage ...

If it is poked or disturbed, an orange dog caterpillar will extrude a two-pronged red or orange scent gland (called the ...

About 170 butterfly species occur in North Carolina as permanent residents, regular visitors, or rare strays. Some of these are restricted to either the coastal or mountain regions. I'd estimate that ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

The swallowtail butterfly family contains up to 700 species in the world, most of them tropical. More than two dozen are found in North America with seven found regularly in Texas. Swallowtail ...

While hopscotching between Sabine Pass and Freeport over the past several weeks to enjoy the annual spectacle of migratory birds, I also enjoyed the sight of giant swallowtail butterflies. The big ...

I think it was my 12th birthday when I received a butterfly and moth capturing kit. It came with a fine-meshed insect net and other items for euthanizing and mounting specimens in a display frame.

A species of swallowtail butterfly found in Australasia holds the record for having the largest number of different vision cells in its eyes for any insect, scientists say. Different classes of ...