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. It ...

Every butterfly gardener delights when showy swallowtail butterflies make an appearance. These butterflies are some of the largest in the garden, and their colorful wings and soaring flight patterns ...

Eclosure is happening all around us, but few people notice. Even SpellCheck tries to make this entomological term into “enclosure.” In fact, it’s from the French word “éclore” meaning “to hatch” and ...

A yard enclosure where monarch and eastern black swallowtail butterflies are being raised in a Worthington neighborhood. [Andrew King/ThisWeek photos] Worthington resident Susan Brown, left, ...

Tim Wong really, really loves animals. The biologist spends his weekdays caring for, and studying, sea creatures at the California Academy of Sciences, while his days off are spent hand-rearing ...