As part of the Carolina Hills Garden Clubs workday, a Kannapolis, NC youth group from Piedmont Baptist Church assisted in cleaning up Billie's Butterfly Garden.

An Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, South Carolina’s state butterfly, takes off from a wildflower. PHIL COALE AP Females for this species can be identified in two different forms.

Even the invasive white cabbage butterfly, “a species that is well adapted to invade the world,” according to Haddad, fell by 50%. “How can that be?” Haddad wondered.

More information: Charles J. DeRoller et al, A cryptic new species of tiger swallowtail (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) from eastern North America, ZooKeys (2025). DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1228.142202 ...

As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A study, "Winters restrict a climate change-driven butterfly range expansion despite ...