Q. How can I support the swallowtail butterfly population? It's great to see the monarchs but I would like to have another variety in my yard. A. Swallowtail butterflies are beautiful insects ...

The black swallowtail deserves to be chosen as state butterfly because it is “a full-time Michigan resident,” Meyer said— it’s the only species that can be found year-round and throughout ...

There’s much more to swallowtails than their colorful elongated wings. Check out these interesting swallowtail butterfly facts. The post 6 Fascinating Swallowtail Butterfly Facts appeared first ...

One of the easiest and most enjoyable for the novice butterfly watcher to tackle is the Swallowtail Family.

The strikingly marked Eastern tiger swallowtail is no doubt the best known. The other two, both with dark ground color, need ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again ...

The Michigan Garden Clubs seeks support of Senate Bill 298, which would designate the black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) as Michigan's state butterfly.

It landed on a flower about 12 feet away, just beyond the minimum focus distance of my big lens. Jackpot! It was immediately apparent to me that this was a black butterfly that belonged to the ...

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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 ...

It's a butterfly of amazing camouflage. Like the feline black and orange tiger whose cryptic coloration allows it to roam stealthily through the forests, the tiger swallowtail's vertical black ...