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 ...

A rare European butterfly has succeeded in breeding in Britain for the first time. The continental swallowtail - a large yellow and black butterfly with a long streamer-shaped tail - has been spotted ...

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.

If you feel like you’ve been surrounded by beautiful, winged insects everywhere you go in Harford County lately, you’re not just seeing things. Butterflies – specifically the large, showy kind – are ...

Various species of swallowtail butterfly are a common sight in fields and woodlands early in the year. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager talk about... May 12, 2016 — Various species of swallowtail ...

An eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly sips nectar from John Fanick phlox. The swallowtail butterfly family contains up to 700 species in the world, most of them tropical. More than two dozen are ...