If it is poked or disturbed, an orange dog caterpillar will extrude a two-pronged red or orange scent gland (called the ...

While out weeding the garden the other day I excitedly approached my fennel. This year I am attempting to grow a big patch of fennel, not just because I like fennel, but because black swallowtail ...

Other butterfly flowers include asters, cosmos, cornflower, daisy, phlox, sunflower, and verbena and don’t be too surprised if you catch a hummingbird or two chasing the butterflies away now and then.

Callaway Gardens is famous for a lot of things in the world of nature, and certainly the Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center is among the best in the country. It’s the place to give you a glimpse of the ...

LANSING, MI - Michigan Garden Clubs President Carol Brodbeck believes Michigan should recognize the value of butterflies by naming the black swallowtail as its official state butterfly. Naming a state ...

The air traffic is thick overhead at the Hallberg Butterfly Gardens. The Pipevine Swallowtails that inspired the late Louise Hallberg to devote her garden to butterflies, are fluttering about filling ...

Michigan is one of the only states in the country without an official state insect, but that could soon change. The black swallowtail butterfly, scientifically known as the papilio polyxenes, would be ...

Learn how to grow pentas, also known as starflower. The colorful, easy-to-grow annual flowers are a swallowtail butterfly ...

Want to encourage more butterflies in your backyard or garden? Consider planting in concert with the lifecycle of butterflies in your region! Avid butterfly gardeners typically know their way around a ...

Look up in the sky. It's bird. It's a plane. No — it's a giant swallowtail, often mistaken for those popular Japanese film star icons, Ro-dan or Mothra. The giant swallowtail is the largest of all ...