Certain species of swallowtail also protect themselves by being distasteful to predators. As caterpillars, they feed on poisonous plants, so they won’t be an appealing snack to predators.

At maturity, that same snake-like caterpillar transitions into a beautiful swallowtail butterfly. In its butterfly state, the red Helen swallowtail is mostly black in color, with distinctive white ...

I spotted a couple of these caterpillars gnawing on the foliage just last week. That same day a black swallowtail adult butterfly was fluttering around the garden. She circled the bronze fennel ...

Summer is prime butterfly season. Butterflies are cold-blooded, meaning their body temperatures are the same as the surrounding air.

No, it's an orange dog caterpillar, the larvae of the Giant Swallowtail butterfly, which is native to our area. Believe it or not, that caterpillar is about to transform into a beautiful blue and ...

If you find a lime swallowtail If someone finds a larvae or a butterfly, they should get in touch with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services plant division at www.fdacs.gov ...

Q: Parsley caterpillars have just about eaten all my parsley. This is a good thing. I have four plants and 30 worms of different sizes/stages. My problem is the parsley is almost gone and I am not ...

If the leaves don’t look perfect anymore, it probably means you’ve been successful,” says Henry, who lost all of the parsley in her garden one season to black swallowtail caterpillars.