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Caterpillar of black swallowtail butterfly

Papilio polyxenes

Description:

And here is the first part of the process. I found many of this caterpillars eating my parsley, I was amazed by the color and patterns.

Habitat:

Apparently sometimes they have orange bright tentacles on the head to scare away predators. They feed on carrots and citruses families and also parsley.

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1 Comment

Sheraar
Sheraar 12 years ago

Wow that's really cool keep up the good work!

AliciaBorisonik
Spotted by
AliciaBorisonik

Gatineau, Québec, Canada

Spotted on Aug 22, 2011
Submitted on Aug 28, 2011

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