The team fed tobacco cutworm larvae ( Spodoptera litura) a rigid belt-like nanocarbon called [6]MCPP, topped up with boiled ...

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

Watching as a butterfly floats across your yard can feel magical, as if it’s reminding you to slow down and enjoy the view.

Each year, volunteers gather in Bandera County to track as many butterfly species as possible. The insects are a key ...

Want to add interest, color, movement and wildlife to your garden this summer? If so, then plant a butterfly garden! There ...

Bob Erlich, an Evergreen Park resident, has devoted his retirement years to promoting and caring for butterflies — and teaching others to do the same.

CHICO — It’s pipevine swallowtail season, meaning black and orange caterpillars are milling about all through Bidwell Park. Chico Park and Natural Resources Manager Shane Romain is advising ...

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.

In 1976, the Schaus’ swallowtail butterfly became one of ... while its surges of salty ocean water drown many caterpillars. In the immediate storm’s aftermath, both butterflies and ...

This is at least the second attempt to get the black swallowtail butterfly as the state butterfly ... The moth is the adult stage of the woolly bear caterpillar, also called the woolly worm.

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.