The lime swallowtail butterfly — an invasive species that hails from Asia and which has damaged citrus trees throughout the Caribbean for nearly 20 years — has reached Florida.

The lime swallowtail butterfly — an invasive species that hails from Asia and which has damaged citrus trees throughout the Caribbean for nearly 20 years — has reached Florida. The butt… ...

Florida’s Swallowtail Butterflies Butterfly Gardening in Florida Series rolls on with this third installment, in which I will focus on Swallowtail butterflies. Florida is home to ten swallowtail ...

Here is some fun, funky, unusual and alternative plants for your Florida landscape. Tacca chantrieri (Black Bat Flower): The black bat is a very unusual plant that grows in shade to filtered light.

The lime swallowtail butterfly — an invasive species that hails from Asia and which has damaged citrus trees throughout the Caribbean for nearly 20 years — has reached Florida. The butterfly ...

In 2017, FLORIDA TODAY ran an article about the Atala butterfly that was previously thought to be extinct but had been discovered again. Since that time, the butterflies have made a resurgence and ...

The resurgence of a native Floridian plant, the coontie, has in return revived the fortunes of the native Atala butterfly, which relies on the coontie and related plants to feed its larvae.

Early Florida settlers used up the native coontie plant to make flour from its starchy stem. With the plant's demise, so went the atala butterfly.

Which is S. Florida’s most-common butterfly? It starts with an ‘a’ … Scott Fisher, Sun Sentinel By Diane C. Lade UPDATED: April 24, 2019 at 2:22 AM EDT ...

The butterfly group is concerned about other imperiled butterflies in South Florida and elsewhere. “Some people might argue extinction is a natural thing, that we lose species all the time ...