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

Various species of swallowtail butterfly are a common sight in fields and woodlands early in the year. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about... May 12, 2016 — Various species of swallowtail ...

Since it's the middle of the summer, and since kids are possibly looking for something fun to do on a rainy day (something we've had plenty of this year), I thought that I would write a column for ...

We keep finding caterpillars in our garden. I wrote about a silkworm caterpillar we raised indoors until a winged Io moth emerged in July. In August, my wife, Kathy, found another caterpillar — aka ...

The first time I saw a giant swallowtail butterfly years ago, I just happened to walk out to get the mail and saw it nectaring on lantana in my flower bed by the road. What a surprise! This huge pale ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

If the Garden State were to gather together its official plants and animals, what an incredible assemblage it would be. Eastern goldfinches flitting in the branches of a red oak tree, violets growing ...

The black swallowtail is the State Butterfly of Oklahoma. It’s a beautiful butterfly with a striking caterpillar. It is found throughout the state and is common in our flower and vegetable gardens ...

Last week I had a picture of a dark form of the eastern tiger swallowtail with my column. The obvious question about any species with more than one color form is: What is the advantage? The advantage ...