Norman Winter is a horticulturist. He is a former director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens. Follow him on Facebook at Norman Winter “The Garden Guy.” See ...

Butterflies are a delight to watch in the garden as they flutter from one flower to another feeding on nectar. They are like airborne flowers as they flash their colorful wings. For the past couple of ...

For Alabama and Georgia specifically, there’s just one butterfly — the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. In both states, it’s deemed the official “state butterfly.” But what made this two-winged creature the ...

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 ...

I think it was my 12th birthday when I received a butterfly and moth capturing kit. It came with a fine-meshed insect net and other items for euthanizing and mounting specimens in a display frame.

It's rare to capture a moment of nature like the one visuals journalist Andrew West recorded recently on a visit to the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park in Collier County. West was on walk along ...

Miss Molly butterfly bush is non-invasive and is a favorite of the Eastern Tiger swallowtail butterflies. Norman Winter Special to the Ledger-Enquirer Did you know that South Carolina has its very own ...

The tiger in the Missouri woods is a butterfly. My picture shows a male eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly on the flower of a buttonbush. It has four black stripes along the shoulders of its front ...

The black swallowtail may be Oklahoma’s state butterfly but the eastern tiger is a crowd favorite. The tiger might actually hold a record as a designated state symbol with “state butterfly” standing ...

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About 170 butterfly species occur in North Carolina as permanent residents, regular visitors, or rare strays. Some of these are restricted to either the coastal or mountain regions. I'd estimate that ...