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Eastern black swallowtail

Papilio polyxenes asterius

Description:

Bright green, yellow and black caterpillar.

Habitat:

Near beach

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Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillar
Papilio polyxenes Black Swallowtail


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2 Comments

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 12 years ago

I spotted the same just last week.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/700...

Latimeria
Latimeria 13 years ago

Definitely not a monarch caterpillar; a monarch caterpillar looks like this: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/113...

traymun999
Spotted by
traymun999

Ontario, Canada

Spotted on Jul 30, 2010
Submitted on Feb 23, 2011

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