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

The fully grown caterpillars are just as attractive with colorful alternating stripes of greenish-white and black with six yellow dots embedded in each black stripe.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

There’s also an old myth that striped woolly bear caterpillars—a particular species with orange and black stripes—can predict the severity of a winter. As the tale goes, if you see them in ...

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.

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.