When I work in the garden, I keep my eyes open for any fun visitors I might find. Notable visitors have been garden spiders ...

All butterflies lay their eggs on specific plants or trees called host plants. The giant swallowtail's host plants are citrus trees such as lime prickly-ash (part of the "toothache" tree group ...

Virginia is about as far north as the huge pale yellow and dark brown butterfly with a horizontal yellow pattern across the center of its wings visit up the East Coast.

You know spices are useful for cooking, but some you can also grow herbs for the butterfly garden to attract pollinators.

One of the easiest and most enjoyable for the novice butterfly watcher to tackle is the Swallowtail Family.

One of the most distinct (and one of my favorite) swallowtail butterflies is the eastern tiger swallowtail. Its vertical yellow and black tiger stripes make it unmatched in the butterfly world.

How did this large black butterfly with distinctive yellow and blue markings flutter to the top of the butterfly heap, surpassing others like the monarch, tiger swallowtail and spangled fritillary ...

All have orange, yellow and black eye spots, but males have two prominent lines of yellow spots and a light dusting of blue spots, while females have much less yellow and much more blue. This was a ...

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 ...

Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally, and they combine yellow, black, orange. blue and red in several diverse patterns that invariably catch the eye. We can marvel at them, but our ...

Black swallowtail butterflies are pollinators, often seen in fields, farmlands and urban areas. The female butterfly lays eggs on specific plants, like dill, which serve as food for the hatching ...