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found on blood orange tree - Papilio zelicaon
Copyright © 2009 Heather

found on blood orange tree - Papilio zelicaon
La Grange / Don Pedro (tiny town in the foothills of Ca. Gold Country), Tuolumne / Stanislaus County, California, USA
July 1, 2009
This was discovered on the same blood orange tree. Since taking this picture it has moved on. How long do they pupate? I'm assuming that the adult will have similar colors, am I correct in assuming this?

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found on orange tree - Papilio zelicaon found on orange tree - Papilio zelicaon found on blood orange tree - Papilio zelicaon
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Contributed by Heather on 10 July, 2009 - 1:06pm

Different colors
I just now found your questions. By now your caterpillar should have become a butterfly and answered them if it stayed nearby. Anyway, the adults are black and white or black and yellowish-white, with a few blue spots. I had one emerge recently. It was a chrysalis for 14 days. The process might go faster in warmer weather.

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… G Whiz, 10 September, 2009 - 12:12am login or register to post comments

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