These large butterflies do not migrate like monarchs. They glide through fields and farmlands and frequent urban landscapes.

The food sources, or host plants, for black swallowtail larvae or caterpillars include parsley, dill, and carrot tops. Additionally, these caterpillars can also feed on Queen Anne’s lace, fennel ...

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.

Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally, and they combine yellow, black, orange. blue and red in several diverse patterns that invariably catch the eye. We can marvel at them, but our ...

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It… ...

We keep finding caterpillars in our garden. I wrote about a silkworm caterpillar we raised indoors until a winged Io moth emerged in July. In August, my wife, Kathy, found another caterpillar ...

DEAR JOAN: I have a caterpillar question.I found two large, mostly black guys in my yard — one crawling up the stucco of the house, the other clinging to a pot on the patio.

The black swallowtail is the State Butterfly of Oklahoma. It’s a beautiful butterfly with a striking caterpillar. It is found throughout the state and is common in our flower and ...

Did you know that caterpillars come from butterfly eggs? See pictures of butterflies laying eggs on their host plants.

Baby black swallowtail butterflies are beautiful and common. Sue Pike [email protected]. We have a large patch of bronze fennel growing out back — this is unfortunate because it can ...