This article first appeared in the Fall, 2019 edition of The Declaration, the newsletter of the Jefferson Chapter of VNPS. Peterson Field Guide to Moths, by David Beadle and Seabrooke Leckie, Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2012.Butterflies through Binoculars: the East, by Jeffrey Glassberg, Oxford University Press, 1999.Wagner, Princeton Field Guides, Princeton University Press, 2005. Caterpillars of Eastern North America, by David L.Asimina triloba, Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora.Eurytides Marcellus, by Leticia Davila 2001, Animal Diversity Web.Butler, Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida. Featured Creatures: Zebra Swallowtail, by Donald W.Connections: The Pawpaw Tree and the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly, by Laura Seale, Blue Ridge Discovery Center.
Hormaza, Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. The Pawpaw, a Forgotten North American Fruit Tree, by Jose I.Layne, Kentucky State University Extension Service. Pawpaw Description and Nutritional Information, by Snake C. Distinctive large black-and-white swallowtail with long tails, unique in almost entire range.Want to know more? Here are my helpful references: (My first thought was that this was a way to assure that some eggs escaped predators, but apparently the caterpillars can be cannibalistic so that scattering the eggs helps protect the caterpillars from each other.) Instead it lay only one egg on a given leaf.
She soon realized that the butterfly was laying eggs on the newly emerging leaves, but it didn’t simply choose a likely leaf and deposit a mass of eggs. In mid-April a couple of years ago my daughter, Mary Jane, who spends a great deal of time in the woods observing nature, was watching a zebra swallowtail butterfly flitting about a pawpaw tree that was just leafing out. On average, their wing span can range from 2.5 to 4 inches (about 6.35 to 10.16 cm). Their wings are of a distinctive black and white striped pattern, hence their name, similar to the striping of a zebra. Zebra swallowtail caterpillars, by ingesting these compounds, make themselves unpalatable to many predators. The Zebra Swallowtail is easily distinguishable due to several traits. If you see a zebra swallowtail around our part of Virginia, you can be sure that there are pawpaws nearby.Ĭompounds called acetogenins in the leaves and leaf twigs are repellent to most insects, birds and browsing mammals. In the Deep South there are a few other species of Asimina that can host the caterpillar but in most of Virginia and in states farther north, Asimina triloba is the only host. Zebra swallowtail, Protographium marcellus (Cramer), with wings spread. It is one of our most beautiful swallowtails (Figures 1 and 2). kite swallowtail (tribe Leptocircini Graphiini) (Opler and Krizek 1984). The zebra swallowtail is beautiful with dramatic black and white stripes enhanced by long swallowtails and touches of red. The zebra swallowtail, Protographium marcellus (Cramer), is our only native U.S. One of the most attractive features of pawpaw is that it is host plant to the caterpillar of the zebra swallowtail butterfly ( Protographium marcellus, formerly Eurytides marcellus).
To control, remove beetles by hand.Zebra Swallowtail Newly Emerged from Chrysalis “Basil may be skeletonized by Japanese beetles. While flowers are typically small and whitish, some can be pink to brilliant magenta. Caterpillars love to eat the leaves of the Pawpaw Tree, a native southern tree that. They are mostly seen in the spring, but they fly all summer long. The Zebra Swallowtail is the only white Swallowtail in its range. A number of varieties exist today, ranging from a tiny-leafed Greek basil to robust 2-foot-high plants with large succulent leaves. Iridescent blue sits at the bottom edge of the hindwings, just before the tail extension. In India, basil was believed to be imbued with a divine essence, and oaths were sworn upon it in courts. Tradition has it that basil was found growing around Christ's tomb after the Resurrection, and consequently, some Greek Orthodox churches use it to prepare holy water and pots of basil are set below church altars. Missouri Botanical Garden regarding Sweet basil, » “Basil is a native of Africa and Asia. The funeral for our good friend is the following day.Ĭonfirmed at BAMONA as “Eurytides marcellus” or “Zebra swallowtail”
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