Butterfly gardening is a popular pastime in North Texas. In our ardor to provide sustenance, however, we may be serving up a deadly dish unwittingly. The iridescent black-and-blue pipevine ...

The red-spotted purple butterfly is also a pipevine mimic, but only where its range overlaps the pipevine. To the north, they have bold white wing stripes and are called white admirals.

Monarch butterflies are famous for having caterpillars that eat milkweed. This habit allows them to take in chemicals that make even the adults taste bad to predators. The pipevine swallowtail ...

For many of us in the High Country, seeing beautiful butterflies fluttering through the air, or sitting on flowers, is a ...

Sometimes you place a plant in your garden and forget all about it. That’s how it has been for me with “Aristolochia elegans,” better known as Dutchman’s pipe, pipevine or c… ...

Tim Wong rescued California Pipevine swallowtail butterflies known for their blue hue In San Francisco, a butterfly species was facing extinction due to the scarcity of its host plant - the ...