While hopscotching between Sabine Pass and Freeport over the past several weeks to enjoy the annual spectacle of migratory birds, I also enjoyed the sight of giant swallowtail butterflies. The big ...

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 ...

A rare European butterfly has succeeded in breeding in Britain for the first time. The continental swallowtail - a large yellow and black butterfly with a long streamer-shaped tail - has been spotted ...

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 ...

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the animal ...

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.

If you feel like you’ve been surrounded by beautiful, winged insects everywhere you go in Harford County lately, you’re not just seeing things. Butterflies – specifically the large, showy kind – are ...

The colors and patterns of black swallowtails reveal the diversity of evolutionary dynamics acting on the sexes and the various life-history stages Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ...