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Butterfly - Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes

Butterfly - Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes
Pocantico Hills, Westchester County, New York, USA
August 30, 2015
Size: est. 2"
Caterpillar - what kind of swallowtail? Feeding on rue.

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Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes. Thanks for noting the food plant; that helps differentiate this from the almost identical Old World Swallowtail.

 
Black Swallowtail Caterpillar
Thanks very much for the ID & the information on the host plant.

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