Swooping over meadows and pausing on blooms, swallowtails draw attention ... A unique subset of the swallowtail family, the parnassians are tail-less white butterflies with black marks and red ...

It’s Pollinator Week! A time to celebrate, bring awareness to, and enjoy the incredible variety of creatures that perform the ...

The black swallowtail butterfly, scientifically known as the papilio polyxenes, would be named state butterfly under House Bill 4159. Common in North America, the black swallowtail is easily ...

The beautiful male emerged in October, eager to mate but destined for disappointment because he emerged too late in the season, just an example of natural selection at work I received an invitation to ...

Jackpot! It was immediately apparent to me that this was a black butterfly that belonged to the “swallowtail” group. The butterfly landed, and opened its wings flat so I could get a great photo of ...

Although the adult Black Swallowtail butterfly could nectar on a wide variety of plants, the caterpillar has a specific larval host plant family that it prefers. And these same caterpillar host ...

My hunting prowess, however, never developed beyond three butterflies and a single moth. I was reminded of this last week when we saw four beautiful Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and two Black Swallowtail ...