These garden caterpillars are friends, not foes! Learn which caterpillars won't hurt you or your plants, and how to identify ...

In 1976, a bill was introduced to adopt a Chinese mantid as Virginia’s official state insect. Entomologist Michael Kosztarab, founding director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History at Virginia ...

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.

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 ...

Monarch butterflies gained access to milkweeds after they evolved the metabolic trick of absorbing the cardiac glycosides by sequestering them in fat bodies Two species of milkweeds are abundant and ...

Every beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar, and caterpillars have to eat. This may surprise you, but the average caterpillar has a very restrictive diet, feeding on only a few plants, and some ...

Miss Molly butterfly bush is non-invasive and is a favorite of the Eastern Tiger swallowtail butterflies. Norman Winter Special to the Ledger-Enquirer Did you know that South Carolina has its very own ...

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 large swallowtail butterfly resting on the wooden railing of a backyard deck. - Meowcher/Shutterstock Butterflies are an important part of any ecosystem. For one, they're good pollinators, just like ...