Butterflies are a delight to watch in the garden as they flutter from one flower to another feeding on nectar. They are like airborne flowers as they flash their colorful wings. For the past couple of ...

FILE - An Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillar feeds on a fennel plant in Spring, Texas on Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) If you’re like most well-intentioned gardeners, you might ...

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North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright yellow ...

Two weekends ago, I stumbled upon the most intriguing caterpillar I've ever seen — that of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. I briefly mistook the emerald green caterpillar for a leaf, but only ...

Today is a wonderful day in my back yard. I observed for the first time an eastern black swallowtail butterfly landing on my bronze fennel in my flower bed. This the host plant for this species of ...

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

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.

We are all used to seeing caterpillars hide themselves away and emerge as butterflies or moths, but the species featured in this YouTube clip emerges as another caterpillar. There is a very good ...