When someone says “butterfly,” what do you see in your mind? Many people think “monarch” but actually picture a beautiful tiger swallowtail in their mind. Tiger swallowtails are large yellow ...

I think it was my 12th birthday when I received a butterfly and moth capturing kit. It came with a fine-meshed insect net and other items for euthanizing and mounting specimens in a display frame.

Story and photos by Sandy de Waal Malefyt It’s not easy to survive to adulthood in the wild. It would seem that the biggest and strongest get this achievement. Ironically, we can look at the delicate ...

The peak season for one of our largest and most beautiful butterflies, the tiger swallowtail, is approaching. To be even more specific, it is time for the emergence of the second brood of the eastern ...

Monarch butterfly numbers still appear to me to be very low for the first week in August. However, another butterfly, one even bigger than the monarch, has been making is presence known over the past ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Last week I had an email from my friend Carol from Abiquiu asking me to ...

Gardening for butterflies has been popular now for several decades. And one native Oklahoma butterfly that is interesting to attract is the pipevine swallowtail. This is a black butterfly with ...

In 1976, a bill was introduced to adopt a Chinese mantid as Virginia’s official state insect. Entomologist Michael Kosztarab, founding director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History at Virginia ...