This May has been overly cloudy and so I’ve wondered whether common signs of spring, such as the first leaves to appear or the first flowers to bloom, have been late because of the gloomy weather?

The North Carolina state butterfly, the eastern tiger swallowtail, is a magnificent creature. Take a look at the video above ...

If you look at available data, there isn’t a clear picture of when the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) emerges to ...

In 1976, a bill was introduced to adopt a Chinese mantid as Virginia’s official state insect. Entomologist Michael Kosztarab, founding director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History at Virginia ...

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 front ...

Video: A look at the Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail in Georgia. (WRBL) — There’s state flags and fruits, but in some states, there’s also butterflies. For Alabama and Georgia specifically, there’s ...

As we moved through the long and near record-breaking winter, we may have wondered if summer would ever come. But here we are at the summer solstice, the first day of summer, June 21. It is also the ...

The white-tailed deer causes millions of dollars in agricultural damage to cotton and soybean crops. The Eastern tiger swallowtail begins its life cycle as a tiny caterpillar that resembles bird ...