Fall butterflies should abound in the Houston area this season because the rains of August have enabled flowering plants to ...

A butterfly species not logged in Pittsburgh since 1937 had reappeared, thanks to enthusiasts for a native fruit tree, and warming weather.

Naturalists waited decades for the zebra swallowtail butterfly's return to the northern end of its habitat. My pawpaw trees ...

Swallowtails’ unique, tail-like hindwing extensions make them some of the world’s most beautiful and interesting butterflies. Unfortunately, many of these insects are also imperiled. The Center is ...

Goetze: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports that butterfly watching — butterflying — is becoming almost as ...

According to Backyard Ecology, spicebush swallowtails will further sell this illusion by raising up their "snake head" to appear even more serpentine to predators. Unfortunately, that means that ...

The big, fragrant flowers of the sweetbay magnolia draw eastern tiger swallowtails in and bloom from late spring until into ...

The plant is pollinated by butterflies like eastern tiger swallowtails, spicebush swallowtails and silver-spotted skippers, whose long tongues are adapted to probe the plant's long, nectar-containing ...

The insects attract everybody else. The butterflies come singly or in pairs now: monarchs, eastern tiger swallowtails, black swallowtails and pipevine swallowtails, plus a few varieties I’ve ...

We’re kicking off a series exploring thoughtfully designed hiking trails that allow people of varying ability to access our ...

While allowing swallowtails to lay their eggs on this plant may leave in missing more than a few leaves as the hungry ...

hawk moths and swallowtails. George was a keen steward of native grasses- Big Bluestem, Switch Grass, Indiangrass, and Sideoats Grama-and enjoyed in his own peculiar way a perpetual battle against ...