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.

Butterflies are among the most beautiful creatures on this planet. They enthrall people with their delicacy, innocence, and ...

An Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, South Carolina’s state ... male with the exception that she has more blue on her hind wings, according to State Symbols USA. The female Eastern Tiger ...

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 ...

The common African mocker swallowtail (Papilio dardanus) is one of the best in the world at this game. Females can mimic the wings of up to five different, more poisonous butterfly species, giving ...

From the black cocoons, yellow and black striped butterflies spread their wings in flight from southern ... species of tiger swallowtail butterflies typically have a flight period in the spring ...

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 ...

The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly is one of our most common butterflies and is found east of the Mississippi River and west into the Great Plains states. They are easy to spot due to their size.

Site manager Tim Strudwick said people come from around the UK to see the "separate subspecies of swallowtail". Butterfly enthusiasts ... with its pale yellow wings, black veins and blue margins ...

House Bill 4159, introduced by several representatives, would designate the black swallowtail ... the butterfly has two rows of pale yellow spots on its front wings, and hind wings have rows ...