One person can make a world of difference. Tim Wong, a senior biologist at the California Academy of Sciences, single-handedly brought a struggling butterfly species back to his home city of San ...

CHICO — Why did the caterpillar cross Petersen Memorial Drive? Possibly to feast on the pipevine plant, abundant in Bidwell Park. It’s pipevine swallowtail season, meaning black and orange ...

Napa Valley has a unique plant growing along its waterways, especially along the Napa River. It is Dutchman’s pipevine (Aristolochia californica) and it is native to California. This plant, one of ...

The drama is real for this sultry flower, a gorgeous butterfly and an unlucky fungus gnat. The devilish caterpillars of the pipevine swallowtail butterfly *devour* the California pipevine, never mind ...

Question: I have heard that a specific pipevine is poisonous to the larva of Pipevine Swallowtails. Is this true? If so, what is the poisonous species of pipevine, and what other types can I plant ...