Butterflies are fragile and vulnerable to predation by all kinds of critters, from birds and reptiles to spiders and other ...

Wild lime, meanwhile, blooms year-round and hosts giant swallowtail butterflies ... feet,” such as the sea-oxeye daisy budding with yellow flowers that withstands wind, tides and saltwater ...

Bob Erlich, an Evergreen Park resident, has devoted his retirement years to promoting and caring for butterflies — and ...

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

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Black swallowtail larva on fennel (top left), pipevine swallowtail larva on Dutchman's pipe vine (top right), swallowtail ...

An exceptional butterfly fossil has been rediscovered in a Japanese museum after decades of neglect. This find sheds light on a previously unknown species. The specimen, discovered in 1988 in Hyogo ...

Why Are Butterfly Bushes Bad? In addition to attracting pollinators, butterfly bushes grow fast, produce flowers early in its life cycle, and grow in tough conditions. All these things are usually ...

So anyone finding themselves in the giant yellow zone may want to consider forgetting their Monday afternoon plans before the storm cancels them on their behalf. As ever with thunderstorms ...

Though striking, these butterflies may not be easy to spot. They've seen more than half of their national populations vanish since 2000. More than a fifth of the country’s butterfly population ...

Indeed. The dragontail butterflies belong to the swallowtail butterfly family (Papilionidae), which contains hundreds of species found all over the world. Unlike the orchard swallowtail butterfly, ...