They seem to enjoy our tiger lilies, but milkweed and Joe-Pye weed are also summer favorites, both of which bloom in our backyard and pasture. The life span of these Swallowtail butterflies includes ...

What Does an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Look Like? These butterflies are not dainty. Adults have a wingspan as small as 3 inches, but they can grow up to 5 1/2 inches across.

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.

Some 100,000 years ago, two different species mated and their hybrid offspring gave rise to the Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly species, researchers have found. IE 11 is not supported.

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 ...

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 ...

As butterflies go, the Eastern tiger swallowtail is pretty scary. Their caterpillars look more like stubby snakes, complete with a fake green head, faux black and yellow eyes, and an orange ...

Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a ... evolved from mixing between the Eastern tiger swallowtail, ... (the Appalachian tiger's range nudges against the Canadian tiger in the northern ...

An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, also known as Papilio glaucus Linnaeus, alights upon a lantana bush still in bloom in September. The males have this tiger coloration, and some females are ...

An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, also known as Papilio glaucus Linnaeus, alights upon a lantana bush still in bloom in September. The males have this tiger coloration, and some females are ...