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Battus philenor
Brownish black caterpillar with 2 rows of orange red tubercles on its back, darker ones on the sides.
Feeding on a wooly pipevine. The caterpillars eat gregariously when young.
Caterpillars eat various pipe vines, (Aristolochia spp) which makes them distasteful to predators, who learn to avoid them.
Spotted on Apr 26, 2012
Submitted on Apr 27, 2012
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