The zebra swallowtail of eastern forests is our personal choice for the most beautiful butterfly. It’s striped black and white, as the name suggests, and has red accents. Very long tails on the ...

First Comes Egg, Then Comes Caterpillar If you’re a good butterfly gardener, your garden is filled with nectar flowers. If ...

At maturity, that same snake-like caterpillar transitions into a beautiful swallowtail butterfly. In its butterfly state, the red Helen swallowtail is mostly black in color, with distinctive white ...

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

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House Bill 4159, recently introduced by several representatives, would designate the black swallowtail as the official state butterfly of ... include nectar from red clover, milkweed and thistles ...

A research team has identified a new species of tiger swallowtail butterfly living in eastern parts of North America. In their study, published in the journal ZooKeys, Julian Dupuis, B.

The lime swallowtail butterfly — an invasive species that ... white splatter paintings across their wings and added a bold red dot at the base. The butterfly’s various larval stages ravenously ...