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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Swallowtails, Parnassians (Papilionidae) » Papilioninae » Fluted Swallowtails (Papilionini) » Papilio » Black Swallowtail - Hodges#4159 (Papilio polyxenes) » Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes asterius)
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Swallowtail Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes
Copyright © 2005 Lynette Elliott

Swallowtail Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
August 16, 2005
Life cycle series:


Female:

Male:
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 17 August, 2005 - 10:50am
Last updated 8 July, 2009 - 6:14pm

Moved
Moved from Black Swallowtail.
… David J. Ferguson, 8 July, 2009 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

Is that a freshly shed skin?
We know you say plant names are not a strength for you. Do you have an image of the plant these were on?
… john and jane balaban, 17 August, 2005 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes
that's a freshly shed skin and it was on parsley.
… Lynette Elliott, 17 August, 2005 - 4:41pm login or register to post comments

 
Ah, so these are
Papilio polyxenes also. Sorry we hadn't realized that you were saying all the images were Black Swallowtails, even though that is exactly what you said!! Link here -
… john and jane balaban, 17 August, 2005 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

 
yes,
I started putting them down as Black Swallowtail and then lost my confidence thinking that there was a chance that more than one swallowtail could have laid eggs on the same plant. So, I moved them all back out to Papilio.
… Lynette Elliott, 17 August, 2005 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

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