These large butterflies do not migrate like monarchs. They glide through fields and farmlands and frequent urban landscapes.

Most butterfly caterpillars are very particular, eating only plants from one family. Monarch caterpillars eat milkweed, black swallowtail caterpillars eat plants in the parsley family, and so on.

The colors and patterns of black swallowtails reveal the diversity of evolutionary dynamics acting on the sexes and the various life-history stages Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ...

Here are brief descriptions of the caterpillars of the six swallowtail species you may see in our area. Black Swallowtails: Green or whitish and black-banded with yellow spots in the later stages.

The pipevines that pipevine swallowtail caterpillars eat contain chemicals that make both the caterpillar and the butterfly bad-tasting, so birds learn to avoid the black butterflies, including ...

Black swallowtail caterpillars are big and fat like those of the monarch butterfly. They love to eat wild carrots (also known as Queen Anne's Lace) and other members of the carrot family.

If there is one critter in the animal kingdom that stakes claim as being the master of disguise, it's the spicebush swallowtail caterpillar. And talk about having a bag of tricks up its sleeve ...

8 Spectacular Caterpillars That Look Like Snakes Gaze into the (fake) eyes of these caterpillars with decidedly snake-like features to get a glimpse into Mother Nature's sly side.

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg ...

For many of us in the High Country, seeing beautiful butterflies fluttering through the air, or sitting on flowers, is a ...

Although the adult Black Swallowtail butterfly could nectar on a wide variety of plants, the caterpillar has a specific larval host plant family that it prefers.