The purple-flowered butterfly bush in my front yard has burst into bloom; already it’s luring swarms of Eastern tiger swallowtails to its rich nectar. The same is true for the lantana bush by the ...

When someone says “butterfly,” what do you see in your mind? Many people think “monarch” but actually picture a beautiful tiger swallowtail in their mind. Tiger swallowtails are large yellow ...

North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright yellow ...

- They say big things can come in small packages. I'm gonna paint this beautiful butterfly today on this little canvas, and I'm gonna show you how you can do your own version of it. Join me next on ...

The Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a rare breed: Some 100,000 years ago, two different species mated and their hybrid offspring gave rise to the Appalachian species, researchers have found ...

In 1976, a bill was introduced to adopt a Chinese mantid as Virginia’s official state insect. Entomologist Michael Kosztarab, founding director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History at Virginia ...

Monarch butterflies gained access to milkweeds after they evolved the metabolic trick of absorbing the cardiac glycosides by sequestering them in fat bodies Two species of milkweeds are abundant and ...

It’s hard not to be dazzled by the bright yellow butterflies fluttering around the Inland Northwest these days. Not only are they striking in color, but they’re among the biggest butterfly species in ...