"Excited for mine to bloom in the next couple weeks." Gardener thrilled as blooming flowers attract special yard visitor: 'I ...

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

Tami Gingrich explores why moths have distinct circular, concentric rings made up of contrasting colors on their wings, ...

Their search for the spicebush paid off. In addition to spotting one of the butterflies, they also found two butterfly eggs on the plant.

Not surprisingly, pipevine swallowtail larvae feed on the native perennial Dutchman’s pipe vine. Many native perennials such as blazing star, Jacob’s ladder, purple coneflower, ironweed and ...

In our area, many moth and butterfly species including the beautiful Luna moth and spicebush swallowtail butterfly rely on leaf litter to overwinter. Fireflies, lady beetles, queen bumblebees and ...

The spicebush swallowtail needs spicebush, the pipevine swallowtail needs Dutchman’s pipevine, and Baltimores need white turtlehead, according to Penn State.

Honey bees can travel up to 3 miles and visit 50 to 100 flowers searching for nectar and pollen. No matter where you are in southwest Ohio, you’re both a Monarch’s migration route and within 3 ...

What you plant — and what you avoid — in the backyard can make a difference to your local butterfly population.

We chose a real native caterpillar, the spicebush swallowtail. Spicebush swallowtail caterpillars really do look like this, with tremendous yellow spots on their heads that look like eyes.

The gardens are home to many pollinators such as the Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly, along with various other butterflies, bees and insects.

But unlike forsythia, which is both nonnative and sterile, spicebush flowers feed pollinators in springtime. Its leaves feed spicebush-swallowtail caterpillars in summer.