A Michigan House bill aims to designate the black swallowtail butterfly as the official state butterfly, highlighting its prevalence and beauty.

A chance encounter in a Panama rainforest has uncovered a new defensive behavior in white-necked jacobin hummingbird chicks.

A giant swallowtail butterfly is large and stunning. Learn what what the caterpillars and adult butterflies look like and ...

Okay, so not everybody enjoys sharing their yard with tenants of a creepy-crawly nature. They don't communicate like dogs ...

The spicebush swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio troilus) is born black and white disguised as bird poop. It will molt three ...

As winter turns to spring, young readers can consider the many new books out this month, including a picture book about a turtle convinced it’s a bear, a graphic novel following a tween with ...

Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar. These specimens demonstrate the ...

Prior research has shown that there are just two unique species of tiger swallowtail butterfly living in areas east of the Great Lakes in North America: Papilio glaucus and Papilio canadensis ...

Papilio is a large genus of swallowtail butterflies within the family Papilionidae. The only representative of the tribe Papilionini, the genus includes about 200 scientifically recognized species.