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

These butterflies are not dainty. Adults have a wingspan as small as 3 inches, but they can grow up to 5 1/2 inches across. Adults have four black parallel stripes at the top of each wing and a ...

Zebra swallowtail caterpillars are mostly green with one thicker blue, black and yellowish band close to the head. Thin yellow stripes accent their abdominal segments. Closer to hatching ...

Eastern swallowtail butterflies are identified by their yellow wings with dark tiger stripes. Bonus trivia: A swallowtail caterpillar like this was the inspiration for the Pokemon Caterpie. 7 ...

It’s Pollinator Week! A time to celebrate, bring awareness to, and enjoy the incredible variety of creatures that perform the ...

Generations have watched in wonder as yellow-and-black striped caterpillars fold into green-and-gold chrysalises and emerge as large orange-and-black butterflies. Monarch's multigenerational migration ...

Black and white stripes combined with a knobbly body make the caterpillar look remarkably like bird droppings. This unappetising outfit is a clever ploy to hide in plain sight, a trick used by ...

From the black cocoons, yellow and black striped butterflies spread their wings in flight from southern Ontario, Canada, to Pennsylvania.

These caterpillars are hairy and dark when small, and later have two yellow lines along the back. A white medial stripe goes along the sides of the body, and this is flanked by two yellow lines.

About half the females in North Carolina are black instead of yellow, according to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences. How to attract NC’s state butterfly to your yard ...

The box caterpillar has yellow and black stripes along its body with a black head. The RHS said the insect's presence can be noticed by defoliation or webbing on box plants.

Unlike the other major caterpillar pests, such as cabbageworm and diamondback moth, the cross-striped cabbageworm lays its eggs in batches (3-25) rather than singly, so caterpillars emerge in ...