Did you know that South Carolina has its very own state butterfly? The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) was designated as the official butterfly of the Palmetto State by Act Number 319 in ...

It’s a scene I’ve witnessed countless times in my Decatur yard and elsewhere: A gorgeous yellow and black Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly flits gracefully from flower to flower, occasionally ...

LANSING, Mich. — An effort is taking wing in Lansing to designate the monarch butterfly as Michigan's official state insect. Legislation giving the monarch butterfly official status in Michigan is as ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – There is a showdown happening in the halls of the state capitol. Two camps of state representatives have introduced competing bills that could change the course of Michigan’s ...

• Seventeen Wisconsin lawmakers and former state treasurer Jack Voight support legislation to make the monarch butterfly the state's official butterfly • Monarch butterfly populations have plummeted ...

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 yellow ...

Lawmakers are debating between the black swallowtail (left) and the monarch butterfly (right). State lawmakers are resuming a long-running debate over which insect should serve as Michigan’s official ...

For more than a decade, naturalists like Sue Muller have been working to save Maryland’s official state insect, the endangered Baltimore checkerspot. Muller, along with many naturalists and ...