The black swallowtail is the State Butterfly of Oklahoma. It’s a beautiful butterfly with a striking caterpillar. It is found throughout the state and is common in our flower and vegetable gardens ...

Since it's the middle of the summer, and since kids are possibly looking for something fun to do on a rainy day (something we've had plenty of this year), I thought that I would write a column for ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Today is a wonderful day in my back yard. I observed for the first time an eastern black swallowtail butterfly landing on my bronze fennel in my flower bed. This the host plant for this species of ...

East Texas is home to a wide array of fascinating wildlife, including the giant swallowtail butterfly. Known for its impressive size and striking appearance, this butterfly is a frequent visitor to ...

What you see here isn’t an animation from Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. This is a close-up of a swallowtail caterpillar, taken by @schwalbenschwanz.schweiz photography. This macro shot of the caterpillar ...

DEAR JOAN: I have a caterpillar question. I found two large, mostly black guys in my yard — one crawling up the stucco of the house, the other clinging to a pot on the patio. Is this a pipevine ...

With our society’s pressure to always watch what we eat, it might be a refreshing change to be a caterpillar. Their main goal is to consume as much as possible, growing ever bigger. Okay, they don’t ...

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.