When the caterpillar transforms into the adult stage called the spicebush swallowtail butterfly, it too has to avoid being consumed by predators. The butterfly is no longer leafy green in color ...

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg ...

When the spicebush swallowtail is in its later stages of being a caterpillar, it looks a lot like a small green snake. It has large false eyes on either side of its long head that make it look ...

Unfurling the leaf, a green caterpillar that looked like a snake with fearsome eyes was lurking inside. Aha, this was the caterpillar of the Spicebush Swallowtail whose reverie was rudely ...

The monarch butterfly caterpillar wears a unique pattern of yellow, white and black bands, which metamorphoses to the showy, iconic butterfly. Caterpillars have 12 real eyes, but weak vision.

Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally, and they combine yellow, black, orange. blue and red in several diverse patterns that invariably catch the eye. We can marvel at them, but our ...

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg time is pretty boring). It's also written and illustrated by three friends.

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg time is pretty boring). It's also written and illustrated by three friends.

When it came to the butterfly section, Chou Musser says he was initially stuck. He knew what he wanted Papilio to look like — a black, swallowtail butterfly — but not how her story would end. Then he ...