Many people think “monarch” but actually picture a beautiful tiger swallowtail in their mind. Tiger swallowtails are large yellow butterflies with black stripes. It’s quite apparent where ...

The male typically has darker black colors but doesn’t have the bluish hind wing and scales like the female. The forked appearance of the hindwings gives this butterfly the swallowtail name. The ...

An eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly sips nectar from John Fanick phlox. The swallowtail butterfly family contains up to 700 species in the world, most of them tropical. More than two dozen are ...

All spicebush and black swallowtails resemble the model, while only some female Eastern tiger swallowtails are blackish. The red-spotted purple butterfly is also a pipevine mimic, but only where ...

The swallowtail butterfly family contains up to 700 species in the world, most of them tropical. More than two dozen are found in North America with seven found regularly in ...

The purple-flowered butterfly bush in my front yard has burst into bloom; already it’s luring swarms of Eastern tiger swallowtails to its rich nectar. The same is true for the lantana bush by ...

A wingspan that can exceed 5-inches makes the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail one of the most loved butterflies in the United States. It has a huge range from Texas north to Canada and all states eastward.

It shares an affinity for cooler habitats with the Canadian tiger, while sharing the ability to mimic the black Pipevine swallowtail with the Eastern tiger. Digging into the butterflies' genomes ...

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two ... Mountains of the eastern United States, stem from black ...

The eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) seems more plentiful this spring than ever before. At any given time, we have at least seven or so individuals gliding and flitting over ...

The tiger in the Missouri woods is a butterfly. My picture shows a male eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly on the flower of a buttonbush. It has four black stripes along the shoulders of its ...