Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly in Garden #2
by Karen Adams
Title
Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly in Garden #2
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
A Zebra Swallowtail butterfly enjoys a tall purple Verbena flower against a bright green background on a July afternoon in my garden in Ohio.
This is commonly called a Zebra Swallowtail . . .Eurytides marcellus (Cramer, 1777)
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Identification of this butterfly is by the appearance on the upper surface of wings with black stripes on pale whitish-green background and the hindwings having very long tails. The ones you may see in early spring form are smaller and lighter colored.
Their wing span is 2 1/2 - 4 inches (6.4 - 10.4 cm).
Adult males fly in the understory near host plants to find females. Females lay single green eggs on lower leaves of host plant. Caterpillars live and feed on the underside of these leaves, then pupate and hibernate there.
Caterpillars eat shrubs of the genus Asimina (pawpaw) in the Annonaceae family. Young plants are preferred.
Adult Zebra Swallowtails get moisture from sand and nectar from flowers including blueberry, blackberry, lilac, redbud, viper's bugloss, verbena, dogbane, and common milkweed. (You can see Verbena in this image.)
These butterflies breed in moist low woodlands near swamps and rivers. Adults fly to nectar plants in open fields and brushy areas.
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July 17th, 2016
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