The giant swallowtail female deposits orange-peel colored eggs on the surface of green leaves, which means you shouldn’t need to get out the old magnifying glass to confirm identity.īrenda of Brenda’s Butterfly Habitat shared that Zanthoxylum americanum (northern prickly ash) was the giants’ host plant of choice in her Michigan garden. Image Details Beautiful Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly June 20 thru the 26th was National Pollinator Week.
The eggs of the giant swallowtail are pretty easy to find compared to other butterfly species that resort to trickery and camouflage to keep their eggs safe. Note: If you’re interested in learning more about (or purchasing) giant swallowtail host plants, get more info on my butterfly host plants page The next season, we would have our answer. Slender striped wings are adapted for both maneuverability and camouflage, allowing Zebra Swallowtails to flutter and swoop through woodland understories. The giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) is the largest butterfly in North America. The season after planting was the first time in years we saw zero giant swallowtail butterflies…had extending northern hospitality to a southern butterfly species been a waste of time? Landscaping Ideas Links Photos Get Identification Help A large, black-and-white-striped butterfly flying in Alabama is a Zebra Swallowtail. Their butterfly life cycle also takes up to 2 months, so the odds are stacked against northern gardeners wanting to raise them with fewer generations and more plants to search! Unlike milkweed-obsessed monarchs, the giant swallowtail female will lay eggs on a wide range of host plants. kite swallowtail (tribe Leptocircini Graphiini) (Opler and Krizek 1984). We planted 3 potential host plants for giant swallowtails caterpillars: Ruta Graveolens (common rue), Ptelea trifoliata (wafer ash or hop tree) and Zanthoxylum americanum (northern prickly ash). The zebra swallowtail, Protographium marcellus (Cramer), is our only native U.S.
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So, a couple seasons ago we decided to see if we could entice GST females to drop off a few of their caterpillar kids… Grants & RFPs Zebra Swallowtail Eurytides marcellus Live in areas where paw paws grow: primarily moist, low woodlands near rivers and swamps Found throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed most common in the southern portion of the Bay region, including Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. OctoBy Mary Lee Epps Pawpaws have a great deal to offerhandsome flowers in the spring, delicious and highly nutritious fruit in the early fall, plus they are the only host plant of one of our most beautiful butterflies, the zebra swallowtail. A Photo Journey Raising Giant Swallowtails from Egg through Butterhoodįor five years straight, we were beyond excited to see the Giant Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio cresphontes) gracing our northern garden.
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