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 ...

When someone says “butterfly,” what do you see in your mind? Many people think “monarch” but actually picture a beautiful tiger swallowtail in their mind. Tiger swallowtails are large yellow ...

The swallowtail butterfly family contains up to 700 species in the world, most of them tropical. More than two dozen are found in North America with seven found regularly in Texas. Swallowtail ...

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the animal ...

North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright yellow ...

I think it was my 12th birthday when I received a butterfly and moth capturing kit. It came with a fine-meshed insect net and other items for euthanizing and mounting specimens in a display frame.

It’s a scene I’ve witnessed countless times in my Decatur yard and elsewhere: A gorgeous yellow and black Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly flits gracefully from flower to flower, occasionally ...

A perfect combination for butterfly watching is a purple-flowered butterfly bush with colorful swallowtail butterflies. This gardener spent many hours on our porch on warm sunny days watching them ...

The purple-flowered butterfly bush in my front yard has burst into bloom; already it’s luring swarms of Eastern tiger swallowtails to its rich nectar. The same is true for the lantana bush by the ...

We know about migrating species of butterflies, but they don't all fly south for the winter. Several overwinter in their home habitat and could use your help.

This beauty of a butterfly is a female tiger swallowtail, believe it or not. Though most of the tiger swallowtail females we see around here look like the big yellow and black striped tiger ...

Last week I had a picture of a dark form of the eastern tiger swallowtail with my column. The obvious question about any species with more than one color form is: What is the advantage? The advantage ...