The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again. It ...

The butterfly I have photographed here is a spicebush swallowtail feeding on a buttonbush bloom. It is native to the eastern United States and belongs to a large family of butterflies known as black ...

If there is one critter in the animal kingdom that stakes claim as being the master of disguise, it's the spicebush swallowtail caterpillar. And talk about having a bag of tricks up its sleeve with ...

Since the beginning of time, nature enthusiasts and poets have rhapsodized about butterflies but have seldom waxed poetic about caterpillars. True, a bard might consider a caterpillar to be nothing ...

When the spicebush swallowtail is in its later stages of being a caterpillar, it looks a lot like a small green snake. It has large false eyes on either side of its long head that make it look very ...

What has what looks like eyes but doesn’t use them to see with? No, it’s not a potato, but I did discover the answer to this riddle when I came across a peculiar looking caterpillar in my flower bed: ...

These garden caterpillars are friends, not foes! Learn which caterpillars won't hurt you or your plants, and how to identify ...