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 ...

With blazing stars, goldenrod, echinacea and asters in full glory — as well as gardens filled with annuals — keep an eye out for swallowtails fluttering between blooms in search of nectar. Similar in ...

It’s a scene I’ve witnessed countless times in my Decatur yard and elsewhere: A gorgeous yellow and black Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly flits gracefully from flower to flower, occasionally ...

Did you know that South Carolina has its very own state butterfly? The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) was designated as the official butterfly of the Palmetto State by Act Number 319 in ...

The tiger in the Missouri woods is a butterfly. My picture shows a male eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly on the flower of a buttonbush. It has four black stripes along the shoulders of its front ...

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.

An eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly sips nectar from John Fanick phlox. The swallowtail butterfly family contains up to 700 species in the world, most of them tropical. More than two dozen are ...

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 ...

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 ...