On Saturday, Sept. 15, the local business www.butterflyway.com will host their third Annual Western Tiger Swallowtail event from noon to 4 p.m. at 1853 Eel River Dr. in Fortuna (off Kenmar Road just ...

Two species of milkweeds are abundant and conspicuous from the plains of Colorado to the montane region of the Front Range. The showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, is common along roadsides and in ...

It”s almost as if he has a “tiger by the tail.” In this case, it”s the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, back in the Davis area after a 15-year hiatus. Butterfly expert Arthur Shapiro, professor of ...

The peak season for one of our largest and most beautiful butterflies, the tiger swallowtail, is approaching. To be even more specific, it is time for the emergence of the second brood of the eastern ...

Foxglove was introduced from Eurasia and commonly blooms in early to mid-summer on roadsides in the Coast Range and the West Cascades. Most plants produce pinkish-purple blossoms but white blossoms ...

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Among the most striking and recognizable butterflies of Northwest Washington are the swallowtails, a family of large-winged insects with distinctive tiger-stripe markings and a namesake “tail” that ...

“Nature is everywhere,” says lepidopterist Liam O’Brien about the tigers of San Francisco’s Market Street—Western tiger swallowtail butterflies, that is. O’Brien and naturalist Amber Hasselbring of ...

With the Chinese Year of the Tiger beginning Sunday, let's look at a tiger of the insect world: the tiger swallowtail butterfly. It's a butterfly of amazing camouflage. Like the feline black and ...