Pipevine swallowtails are aposematically colored--the orange spots on the ventral hindwings warn of chemical defenses. Black swallowtail adults have no chemical defenses, but their similarity to a ...

Last week I had a picture of a dark form of the eastern tiger swallowtail with my column. The obvious question about any species with more than one color form is: What is the advantage?

Swallowtails are large butterflies, so naturally their caterpillars, or larvae, grow to be pretty good-sized. Many have beautiful or strange color ... The pipevine swallowtail, common in southern ...

The featured butterfly today is the Pipevine Swallowtail. Here is an excerpt ... a classic warning or aposematic color scheme known in the natural world to signal danger. Constant fluttering ...

The gorgeous but toxic pipevine swallowtail ... and orange- and cream-colored spots. Some adults have a wingspan of more than 3 inches, said the Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America.

They have a rich black color ... of the pipevine feeds on noxious pipevine plants such as the Dutchman's pipe in the Aristolochia genus. The caterpillar produces a pipevine swallowtail butterfly ...

The larvae of these butterflies are responsible for the plant damage. They are reddish brown to black caterpillars with lighter colored ... swallowtail butterflies actually imitate some of the ...

The pupa are protectively colored ... zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus) and pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor). Most of the things you do to attract and sustain the monarch butterfly ...

Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ... which are retained by pupae and adults. Pipevine swallowtails are aposematically colored — the orange spots on the ventral hindwings ...