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Papilio chresphontes
This caterpillar mimics bird droppings supposedly to discourage predation by birds!
School garden
Found on citrus plant, it's larval host.
Spotted on May 25, 2011
Submitted on May 25, 2011
7 Comments
Nice Update! By the way there is a Buddha Hand fruit picture put on tonight from CA
I just added photos of the change to chrysalis if anyone is interested.
I know...it's very weird looking but the butterfly is beautiful! It's all about survival.
this really looks so weird. i can hardly figure it out... nice !
It might be...I found 3 of these large ones on the Buddha's Hand citrus. Now if I can find the chrysalises in the next couple of days.
Claire, is this the one I took as a baby? How wonderful!
Cool pics! Caterpillars almost look alien in form.