Category Archives: Giant Swallowtail Holy Cow! Today there were Butterflies everywhere in the backyard. We had a Monarch, Question Mark, Variegated Fritillary, Giant Swallowtail, Grey Hairstreak, Eastern Black Swallowtail, some type of Crescent Butterfly, and a Pipevine Swallowtail. I got a few pictures, but I missed several and several others weren’t that good as I got over-excited. The plants...  I’ve never, ever, been able to get any pictures of a Giant Swallowtail while it was flying. Today must be my lucky day. In this first photo, the Butterfly was flying in front of a Sago Palm. The Palm makes an interesting background to me. In this second picture, the Giant Swallowtail was flying by...  This Giant Swallowtail Caterpillar has been really growing. Before taking the picture I touched the Caterpillar and it shot out its Osmeterium (two antennae). Shortly after I took this picture I went back so look at it, and it was gone. Hopefully a wasp didn’t get it.  I managed to get some decent Giant Swallowtail pictures today while it was feeding on nectar plants. In this first image, the Swallowtail is getting nectar from one of our Penta plants. These next two images are “almost” the same, but one of them contains a notorious Butterfly Caterpillar killer. These pictures are a little...  I thought I’d provide a little backyard Butterfly update. We haven’t seen any Monarch Butterflies, but we do have 9 Caterpillars from the one Monarch from Mexico. To give the Caterpillars the best chance of success, I have quarantined them in our Butterfly Enclosure. I did this to protect the Caterpillars from predatory wasps and... |
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