Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the animal ...

A rare European butterfly has succeeded in breeding in Britain for the first time. The continental swallowtail - a large yellow and black butterfly with a long streamer-shaped tail - has been spotted ...

If you feel like you’ve been surrounded by beautiful, winged insects everywhere you go in Harford County lately, you’re not just seeing things. Butterflies – specifically the large, showy kind – are ...

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.

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 ...

The author of Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, remembered the moment he first saw a swallowtail as one of the most “intense” in his life. He took in every detail of this “splendid, pale yellow creature with ...