What Does a Hackberry Emperor Look Like? What type of butterfly is this? asks reader Andrea Rickard of Helena, Ohio. Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “This is a good view of the intricate pattern on ...

A crowd slowed traffic one recent morning on a road north of Lawrence, but it dispersed in a cloud of fluttering wings, as thousands of hackberry emperor butterflies took to the sky. Asterocampa ...

A Hackberry Emperor butterfly swoops in to join others on a rotten piece of cantaloupe left near the entryway of the Fitch Natural History Reservation north of Lawrence on May 22.

Stately hackberry trees are butterfly factories. ... As the eastern population of this iconic butterfly has diminished by about 90 percent, monarchs can use all the help they can get.

Many species of butterflies consider it the perfect caterpillar food plant, including the Question Mark, Mourning Cloak, Hackberry Emperor, Tawny Emperor and the darling American Snout. 7 ...

Adult hackberry butterflies are unique because they don't sip nectar from flowers as most butterflies do. Rather, they eat rotting fruit, dung, carrion and tree sap.

When a butterfly alights on one’s shoulder, the poet Robert Browning would say, “God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,” and I must concur with the bard. The ...

I was standing at Pavilion 1 in Lancaster County Central Park one day early in June when a hackberry butterfly landed on my left arm. Immediately its long, straw-like mouth came out and I could ...