The Fairly Black Swallowtail Butterfly of Mississippi: Spicebush Swallowtail

http://funfunpics.blogspot.com/2010/05/fairly-black-swallowtail-butterfly-of.html 8:00 PM, Posted by Qline , Subscribe to feed reader here

Bookmark and Share

Spicebush Swallowtail is a fairly black swallowtail butterfly. And it is the state butterfly of Mississippi. But it looks the best when it is still a caterpillar.

The caterpillars live in folded leaf shelters and eat the leaves of the sassafras or spicebush. Adults consume a variety of nectars, including those from azalea, Japanese honeysuckle, milkweed, and thistle flowers.

Both sexes are thought to be edible mimics of the distasteful Pipevine Swallowtail.

























Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar

Label:

Content

This blog maybe contains your blog's material such like pics and photos, videos, wallpapers or themes.
Please contact me if you have any objection of those material. We randomly picked it through internet e.g Google, Yahoo, Bing and Social Networks Site.

For advertisement matters, you can send me email to superbuxmoney[at]gmail.com.