While we’d been busy banding birds, the Sun had climbed high into open skies above the Moquah Barrens on the spine of the Bayfield Peninsula. The temperature had climbed since early morning, too. As ...

As we moved through the long and near record-breaking winter, we may have wondered if summer would ever come. But here we are at the summer solstice, the first day of summer, June 21. It is also the ...

This May has been overly cloudy and so I’ve wondered whether common signs of spring, such as the first leaves to appear or the first flowers to bloom, have been late because of the gloomy weather?

FAIRBANKS — The Canadian Tiger Swallowtail is a yellow striped butterfly sometimes confused with the monarch butterfly more often found in the Lower 48. The tiger swallowtail has a wingspan of between ...

The peak season for one of our largest and most beautiful butterflies, the tiger swallowtail, is approaching. To be even more specific, it is time for the emergence of the second brood of the eastern ...

Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago. It's a rarity in the animal world, ...

Scientists know a lot about Eastern tiger swallowtail -- the state insect in five states -- but they hadn't managed to sequence their genome. Now, researchers have sequenced the complete genome of one ...

Something small and bright caught my eye. Stopping mid-stride and mid-conversation, I bent down to look at a small jumble of legs and exoskeletons in the tread of the Ice Age Trail. Luckily, my hiking ...