Every day I walked past this spicebush swallowtail caterpillar. It hid inside a rolled-up sassafras leaf; it was just a little green thing at first.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge studied an Indonesian butterfly known as the peacock or swallowtail.
Patterns in Nature: Butterflies Colorful gerbera daisies highlight the rich coloration of a spicebush swallowtail butterfly (Papilio troilus).
The citrus swallowtail , beautiful and animate, gave happiness to this family.
The Manhattan docks were a place of "stiff top hats, swallowtail coats and trousers that had replaced the eighteenth century's powdered hair and knee breeches."
The researchers made artificial wings from a thin film of polymer, fabricating them with plastic veins mimicking those of an actual swallowtail butterfly.
I saw a tiger swallowtail butterfly.
This makes them more efficient than swallowtail butterflies (3.6), fruit flies (1.8) and bumble bees (2.5).
A magnified shot shows the head of a tiger swallowtail butterfly larva.