Learn what a hackberry emperor butterfly looks like and where to find one. Also find out the caterpillar's host plant.

Each spring, butterfly larvae from the previous summer emerge from a winter-long dormancy on the forest floor, and climb back up the nearest hackberry to gorge on its new leaves.

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 ...

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 hackberry ...

The hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) features a texture of corky warts and ridges breaking up a smooth background. ... Eastern Comma, Hackberry Butterfly, Tawny Emperor, and Mourning Cloak.

Hackberry trees can be messy, ... Perhaps best of all, it is the preferred host plant for the Hackberry Emperor butterfly, a warm red-brown creature with odd white spots and black wing bands.

It’s impossible not to love a hackberry emperor butterfly. These gentle creatures will land on your skin to partake of the salt and other minerals in your sweat.

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 ...