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

Tami Gingrich delves into the value of tulip trees, detailing their beautiful blooms and the bevy of pollinators they support ...

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

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 ...

and the Canadian tiger swallowtail (Pterourus canadensis), are both large, striking, yellow and black butterflies. I am going to assume the butterfly I saw was a Canadian tiger swallowtail because ...

With a net and a notebook in hand, William Greenwood Wright climbed across mountain ridges and traipsed through meadows in a relentless 25-year search for butterflies. By 1905, the San Bernardino ...

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 ...

If they’re right, the giant yellow balls positioned above and behind them are released but stop before bumping the contestants off. If they’re wrong? Into the drink the players go.

While pollinators love these tiny umbel-shaped, greenish-yellow flowers ... of the beautiful swallowtail butterfly. The caterpillars will munch away on the leaves, then go elsewhere to pupate ...