The zebra swallowtail of eastern forests is our personal choice for the most beautiful butterfly. It’s striped black and white, as the name suggests, and has red accents. Very long tails on the ...

Although the goal is typically to attract pollinators to your garden, seeing a lime swallowtail land on one of your flowers ...

A defence reflex also helps at this stage: when they are touched they arch their backs and send two red horns protruding from their heads. 'A foul smell is released at the same time, warning predators ...

Swallowtails’ unique, tail-like hindwing extensions make them some of the world’s most beautiful and interesting butterflies. Unfortunately, many of these insects are also imperiled. The Center is ...

Song of the Reed: Swallowtail is the first of four seasonal Radio 4 dramas following life on a wetlands nature reserve in Norfolk over one year, starring Sophie Okonedo and Mark Rylance.