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The chrysalis is green in summer and dark brown in winter, and looks like a piece of wood. Even as caterpillars, they need to find a way to protect themselves from threats during their early development. In their caterpillar stage, they mimic a snake with the tongue like osmeterium ( a defensive organ ) and two eyespots on the thorax to ward ...
Gomphocarpus physocarpus is a food of the caterpillars of Danaus butterflies, including the African monarch butterfly (Danaus chrysippus orientis). They store the unpleasant tasting and toxic cardenolides from the plants to deter predators. Distinctive colouration alerts predators before they attack. [8]
The Sphingidae are a family of moths commonly called sphinx moths, also colloquially known as hawk moths, with many of their caterpillars known as hornworms. It includes about 1,450 species. [1] It is best represented in the tropics, but species are found in every region. [2]
Like all species in the giant order lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), the monarch lifecycle is a perfect metamorphosis of four acts: egg, caterpillar, pupa, butterfly. ... Last winter, monarchs ...
Papilio polyxenes, the (eastern) black swallowtail, American swallowtail or parsnip swallowtail, [4] is a butterfly found throughout much of North America. An extremely similar-appearing species, Papilio joanae, occurs in the Ozark Mountains region, but it appears to be closely related to Papilio machaon, rather than P. polyxenes.
The eastern giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) is the largest butterfly in North America. [2] It is abundant through many parts of eastern North America; populations from western North America and down into Panama are now (as of 2014) considered to belong to a different species, Papilio rumiko. [3]
Like most people, we encourage milkweed growth for the endangered monarch butterflies. A milkweed tussock moth caterpillar feasting on a milkweed plant, displaying their distinctive black, orange ...
Butterflies need specific plants, called host plants, where they can lay their eggs and caterpillars hatch. Not all caterpillars will become butterflies, of course, because some are eaten by birds ...