Swallowtail Caterpillars Swallowtails are large butterflies, so naturally their caterpillars , or larvae, grow to be pretty good-sized. Many have beautiful or strange color patterns.

For many of us in the High Country, seeing beautiful butterflies fluttering through the air, or sitting on flowers, is a ...

Around this time last year, my wife noticed some black spots on the parsley and dill growing in our garden at home. I didn’t ...

As they mature, the caterpillars grow to about 2 inches long and develop distinctive patterns of white, brown, and green. Pupa: The caterpillars then form a chrysalis, where they undergo ...

The last black swallowtail caterpillars of the summer will become a chrysalis, and then remain a chrysalis all winter until emerging in the spring. The chrysalis has its own form of antifreeze ...

Unlike monarch caterpillars, which feed exclusively on milkweed, swallowtail caterpillars feed on parsley, fennel, and other plants in the carrot family. Walter Reeves for the AJC By Walter Reeves ...

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 ...