Around this time last year, my wife noticed some black spots on the parsley and dill growing in our garden at home. I didn’t ...

These little caterpillars around South Carolina this summer may look whimsical, but their venomous touch is excruciating.

The third week of June has been designated National Pollinator Week by the Pollinator Partnership (pollinator.org). Though ...

Watching as a butterfly floats across your yard can feel magical, as if it’s reminding you to slow down and enjoy the view. But as it turns out, routine visits by these ethereal insects can be more ...

The food sources, or host plants, for black swallowtail larvae or caterpillars include parsley, dill, and carrot tops. Additionally, these caterpillars can also feed on Queen Anne’s lace, fennel ...

On dill, parsley, and fennel, seeing yellow eggs on the plant leaves will mean you're on the right track, and about a week later, the young black caterpillars should emerge. Older Eastern black ...

Close up of caterpillar on parsley branch. Image via Depositphotos. Caterpillars have developed an extraordinary ability through millions of years of evolution to consume plants that could be fatal to ...

Dill, fennel and parsley provide food for eastern black swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. How to harvest dill Harvesting dill is as easy as cutting off the leaves.

As Eric Carle once wrote, there was a “very hungry caterpillar.” It hatched from an egg and began its search for food. After about two weeks, it became a big, fat caterpillar — 2,000 times ...

Black swallowtail lays eggs on the herbs parsley, fennel, rue and fennel. Though the caterpillars are aggressive, they are obvious and easy to remove by hand.

As they cling to leaf tips, newborn warty birch caterpillars produce vibrations that can ward off invaders approaching their millimeter-size domain. By Becky Ferreira When territorial animals are ...

If the leaves don’t look perfect anymore, it probably means you’ve been successful,” says Henry, who lost all of the parsley in her garden one season to black swallowtail caterpillars.