When I was 8 years old and in second grade my aunt bought me a kit to raise Monarch butterflies. I was then, and still am obsessed with butterflies. The kit came with the Monarch butterfly eggs, food ...

The photo at left that ran Thursday with an article on butterflies was misidentified as the caterpillar of a spicebush swallowtail butterfly. It is actually the mature larvae of a promethea moth, ...

Like personalities sought by paparazzi, giant silk moths are all the rage briefly then forgotten until the next time they go ...

Moths are "butterflies of the night," as local naturalists John and Gloria Tveten call them. The colorful creatures are more likely to show up under a porch light than on a flower as butterflies do. I ...

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