If there is one critter in the animal kingdom that stakes claim as being the master of disguise, it's the spicebush swallowtail caterpillar. And talk about having a bag of tricks up its sleeve with ...

Mark Eastburn was hiking with his wife and son along a boardwalk in the woods of Medford Lakes, N.J., last week when they were stopped in their tracks by an amusing caterpillar attempting to scare ...

Third of five parts. Read part two here. Swallowtail caterpillars are a lot like other caterpillars. They eat leaves, grow and metamorphose into a butterfly or moth, but they have a few odd ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

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If the caterpillar of a black swallowtail butterfly shows you its “horns,” it’s just a defensive response, and a rather stinky one at that. A photograph of the colorful green, black and yellow ...