Share your milkweed with a queen butterfly, a regal year-round Southern pollinator. Find out what the adults and caterpillars look like.

Black swallowtail caterpillars eat plants like fennel, parsley and dill, absorbing toxins for protection from predators. When threatened, the caterpillar uses a forked tongue-like gland called ...

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 ...

Researchers find that the white spots on the wings of monarch butterflies may help them fly farther. (Story first aired on All Things Considered on June 21, 2023.) Monarch butterflies have distinctive ...

Attract the elegant zebra swallowtail butterfly to your yard by growing nectar plants. Also discover the host plant for the ...

Cabbage white butterflies – Pieris rapae – are one of the most common garden visitors across southern and eastern Australia. The butterfly looks elegant in white with black dots on its wings: females ...

California monarchs are in trouble and federal officials have demurred when it comes to providing help. A new survey of the Western population of the orange, black and white butterflies shows that the ...

Nemours Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children welcomed a few hundred painted ladies as guests Wednesday. Painted lady butterflies, that is. The bright orange-black-and-white butterflies are the focus ...