At first the newly formed chrysalis is leafy green in color ... transforms into the adult stage called the spicebush swallowtail butterfly, it too has to avoid being consumed by predators.

The female spicebush swallowtail butterfly was fluttering down, landing for a moment or two on a leaf on my sassafras tree and moving on to do the same thing on other leaves over and over again.

Spicebush swallowtail ... where butterflies metamorphose from caterpillars to butterflies. Butterfly pupa form a hard shelled chrysalis where this transformation takes place.

What does a monarch caterpillar and chrysalis look like ... As the name might suggest, this swallowtail butterfly hosts on spicebush, as well as red bay, camphor, sweet bay, and tulip tree.

It serves as the host plant for the spicebush swallowtail. The large dark-colored butterfly with tail-like ... The pupal-stage chrysalis the caterpillar turns into is green in summer and gray ...

The beautiful spicebush butterfly lays its eggs on this plant so when their unusual-looking larvae hatch on it, they have the food they need to grow. They make a chrysalis in a rolled-up leaf that ...

So we asked the experts at Idlewild Butterfly Farm and apparently ... (some look this way up until they change into a chrysalis). The spicebush caterpillar goes from bird droppings to snake ...

A white peacock butterfly emerges from its chrysalis at the Conservatory of Flowers ... sticking their proboscis deep into red salvias and pink Princess flowers. Among them is the spicebush ...

Swallowtails are the largest butterfly in this ... with a repellent chemical. The chrysalis is brown and is often mistaken for a part of a branch. The spicebush swallowtail and pipevine ...

The chrysalis stage of this caterpillar ... Before they pupate — and turn into the ‘eye-catching’ black spicebush swallowtail butterfly — they turn a bright yellow color.

Nevertheless, the group delighted in finding 12 species, from the summer azure with a one-or-so-inch wingspan to a spicebush butterfly with ... bag-like chrysalis. Krist moved two to a cloth ...