Have you ever seen a swallowtail butterfly? Swallowtail butterflies get their name from their long tail that extends from their hind wings. The tail serves as a diversion, getting birds to look at the ...

Evolutionary biologist Ariane Chotard of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris studies the wings of swallowtail butterflies, which make up the hundreds of species in the family Papilionidae.

would be named state butterfly under House Bill 4159. Common in North America, the black swallowtail is easily identified by its black, three-to-four-inch diameter wings with yellow, blue and ...

According to the National Phenology Network, spring (as determined by a variety of "signs of spring" like leaf out and bud ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) The lime swallowtail butterfly — an invasive species ...

Entomologists have discovered Papilio solstitius, a new tiger swallowtail butterfly that appears in summer in eastern North America.

Among the species hardest hit is the monarch butterfly, with its vivid orange-and-black wings and one of the most ...

North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss ... The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail’s yellow and black wings can reach six and a half inches across. Males and females are this colorful ...

nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine long-term population trends of the federally endangered Schaus's swallowtail butterfly ...