Big, vibrant and abundant swallowtail butterflies bring a flurry of eye-catching activity to backyards across the United ...

Does a Parsley Caterpillar Become a Butterfly ... "Parsley, dill, and fennel are well-known by gardeners as host plants for black swallowtail butterflies because they are commonly planted in ...

Evan Rhodes photographed a beautiful black swallowtail butterfly caterpillar feeding on a fennel plant in Duck in North Carolina. Members of the carrot family are among the host plants for the ...

It's very hard living with a lazy, messy gardener. She used to take care of things, but the older she gets, the more she ...

It is the caterpillars that are particularly eye-catching and it is this stage that is most often noticed in gardens. The caterpillars are predominantly grey-black with small red ... cause a slight ...

I’ve invested a lot of time in finding eggs and caterpillars, giving them a safe place and plenty ... I wish I could have been on the ground a little more under the plant to catch the moment the eggs ...

"The big difference between a caterpillar and an adult butterfly or moth is that ... As I write this, their late-season host plant, asters, which seemed fairly abundant just a few weeks ago, are ...

Just 100 years ago, a small red beetle with a black ... plants) get nearer the edge of their natural range, their habitat and ecological requirements become more precise. For instance, European ...

Q: Parsley caterpillars have just about eaten all my parsley. This is a good thing. I have four plants and 30 worms of different sizes/stages. My problem is the parsley is almost gone and I am not ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of ...