This is exactly what has happened with Papilio solstitius, a tiger swallowtail butterfly newly recognized as a separate ...

Bushes that attract butterflies are the answer! Plant just a few bushes to fill in empty corners, or plant a full hedge for a ...

Entomologists have discovered Papilio solstitius, a new tiger swallowtail butterfly that appears in summer in eastern North ...

Columnist Shannon Brennan writes that insects play an enormous role of supporting life on earth and the decline of ...

As the warm summer and spring suns arrives, it signals a change in the pupa, allowing the adult butterfly to emerge. This shedding process, or ecdysis, is when an animal sheds an outer layer of ...

The common culinary herb will attract butterflies to your garden who use the aromatic plant as a host for their caterpillars. Specifically, the caterpillars of the Black Swallowtail and Anise ...

The plant boasts large, vibrant orange blooms and attracts pollinators like butterflies and hummingbirds. It thrives in a variety of landscape settings and container combinations, complementing ...

This arrangement allows butterflies to detect an extraordinarily wide range of colors, including ultraviolet patterns invisible to humans. The Australian swallowtail butterfly (Papilio aegeus) has one ...

It is an action that reveals that specific undesirable activities by some butterfly species can be controlled with minimal harm to other species. The black swallowtail is around landscapes in the ...

When the tulip poplar starts getting its leaves the (native) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterflies are going to emerge from their chrysalis and start looking for nectar plants.” Many plants ...