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About 2 inches long. There are two of these, identical, and we assume some sort of chrysalis. They are tethered with fine black filaments to a wall.
Spotted on Nov 8, 2014
Submitted on Nov 8, 2014
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Hi David, I found five of these. They were there for a long time and then one day I went to see them and they were all black and empty. a few months earlier I saw swallowtail caterpillars on a sour orange tree, but a squirrel cuckoo ate the lot.
Thanks David, I think you are exactly right. If they were on a tree you'd never see them in a million years.
This'd be a beautiful example of camouflage (if it was on a tree :)) I'm guessing it's a big swallowtail butterfly, rather similar to the Giant Swallowtail we have in USA - see this link: http://www.butterflylifecycle.net/uncate....