Fill your herb garden with black swallowtail butterflies. Learn what the caterpillar, eggs and adult butterflies look like.

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 ...

Charlie Bruggemann in Kempsville in Virginia Beach passed on his photo-essay of a black swallowtail butterfly emerging from its chrysalis at 10 a.m. one morning and flying off into the wild blue ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ten-year-old boy named Jo Nagai hand-raised swallowtail butterflies in Japan. He discovered these insects could remember ...

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 ...

Butterfly Gardening in Florida Series rolls on with this third installment, in which I will focus on swallowtail butterflies. Florida is home to 10 swallowtail butterfly varieties, more than any other ...

I love butterflies…of all kinds. And I have written several articles about this beloved insect. Most of the time, I write about the monarch butterfly, because I have raised them the last few years.

Most swallowtails have distinctive tails on their hind wings. My series about butterfly gardening in Florida rolls on: In this third installment, I will focus on swallowtail butterflies. Florida is ...