With the Chinese Year of the Tiger beginning Sunday, let's look at a tiger of the insect world: the tiger swallowtail butterfly ... stripes against a yellow background allow it to blend in ...

The zebra swallowtail butterfly is boldly zebra striped in black and white with red accents. Wings have bold black stripes on a white or teal-white background. Hindwings feature a red stripe on ...

No matter where you live ... Then enjoy watching the swallowtail caterpillars grow, knowing you’re supporting local butterfly populations. A tiger swallowtail flying against the blue sky ...

Did you know that South Carolina has its very own state butterfly ... species has no yellow or stripe and appears much darker in color. A dark morph female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and a ...

Did you know that South Carolina has its very own state butterfly ... Tiger swallowtail butterflies. Norman Winter Special to the Ledger-Enquirer The female’s dark form for this species has no ...

No wonder that the Eastern tiger swallowtail is the official state butterfly of Georgia and four other states — Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina and Delaware. Male tiger swallowtails ...

No wonder Georgia’s Legislature made the Eastern tiger swallowtail the state’s official butterfly in 1988. It is also the state butterfly of Alabama, Delaware, North Carolina and South ...

North Carolina’s state butterfly is hard to miss — and also easy to attract to backyards by planting a variety of native plants. The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) can be bright ...

About 170 butterfly species occur in North Carolina as permanent residents, regular visitors, or rare strays. Some of these are restricted to either the coastal or mountain regions. I'd estimate ...

This beauty of a butterfly is a female tiger ... round about , thinking maybe it was a spicebush swallowtail female. But no, it’s a female tiger swallowtail with her own sense of style.

The Appalachian tiger swallowtail butterfly is a rare breed: Some 100,000 years ago, two different species mated and their hybrid offspring gave rise to the Appalachian species, researchers have ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago ...