Well-intentioned gardeners often focus on planting the right plants to feed pollinators and other wildlife with pollen, seeds ...

Story and photos by Sandy de Waal Malefyt It’s not easy to survive to adulthood in the wild. It would seem that the biggest and strongest get this achievement. Ironically, we can look at the delicate ...

Scientists know a lot about Eastern tiger swallowtail -- the state insect in five states -- but they hadn't managed to sequence their genome. Now, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of one ...

I think it was my 12th birthday when I received a butterfly and moth capturing kit. It came with a fine-meshed insect net and other items for euthanizing and mounting specimens in a display frame.

The peak season for one of our largest and most beautiful butterflies, the tiger swallowtail, is approaching. To be even more specific, it is time for the emergence of the second brood of the eastern ...

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 ...

Turn your backyard garden into a beautiful butterfly paradise. Grow swallowtail butterfly host plants and flowers.

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 ...

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Two weekends ago, I stumbled upon the most intriguing caterpillar I've ever seen — that of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly. I briefly mistook the emerald green caterpillar for a leaf, but only ...

I find I have to constantly keep my knee-jerk reactions to certain insects in my garden in check. I tend to have an us-versus-them mentality when it comes to insects that I find feeding upon the ...