Butterflies and moths start out the season as caterpillars, and caterpillars are voracious feeders of leaves. If you spray ...

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets,” said Aldo Leopold in A Sand County Almanac. “But humbler folk ...

A recent study of declining butterfly populations published in the journal Science made headlines across the country when it ...

Sugar Maple: Beautiful leaves in the fall and nectar for pollinators. Sassafras: A favorite host for Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar Pawpaw: Offers tropical-tasting late-summer fruit and hosts the ...

The Research wing of the Uttarakhand Forest Department has established Uttarakhand's first-ever Butterfly gallery at the Nature Education Centre, Jolly Grant in Dehradun. The gallery showcases ...

Plant honeysuckle to attract hummingbirds to your garden. The fragrant perennial shrub has a tubular flower that is perfectly suited to the birds' beaks.(Fenkep) Now that the last cold snap of ...

A house bill was proposed on Thursday, March 27 that would designate the black swallowtail butterfly as the official state butterfly. House Bill 4308 of 2025 would create a new act that would ...

Here is the list of most breathtaking and beautiful butterfly species in the world. The black swallowtail, also known as the eastern black swallowtail or American swallowtail, has black wings ...

We chose a real native caterpillar, the spicebush swallowtail. Spicebush swallowtail caterpillars really do look like this, with tremendous yellow spots on their heads that look like eyes.

Spicebush swallowtails prefer sassafras trees and spicebush. And the Eastern tiger swallowtail likes black-cherry trees and tulip trees. To find the right host plants for butterflies in your area, ...

Have you ever seen a swallowtail butterfly? Swallowtail butterflies get their name from their long tail. It extends from their hind wings. The tail serves as a diversion, getting birds to look at the ...