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 Texas. Swallowtail ...

Phyllis Smith with Forsyth Cooperative Extension joined us on our set today to speak about Tiger Swallowtail butterflies and how we can recognize them in our gardens and natural surroundings. Phyllis ...

The peak season for one of our largest and most beautiful butterflies, the tiger swallowtail, is approaching. To be even more specific, it is time for the emergence of the second brood of the eastern ...

We know about migrating species of butterflies, but they don't all fly south for the winter. Several overwinter in their home habitat and could use your help.

A perfect combination for butterfly watching is a purple-flowered butterfly bush with colorful swallowtail butterflies. This gardener spent many hours on our porch on warm sunny days watching them ...

Norman Winter is a horticulturist. He is a former director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. Follow him on Facebook at Norman Winter “The Garden Guy.” See ...

I thought it was just me until I talked with fellow flower and bird lover Kate Tufts, a volunteer at the Robinson Nature Center, who revealed that she too has been seeing a huge proliferation of the ...

When I was drinking my coffee on the porch Thursday it was already so warm that eastern tiger butterflies were flying by 7 a.m. Our clocks, of course, read 8 a.m., because, unlike Arizona and Hawaii, ...