Zebra Swallowtail Diet. ... If you want to raise a caterpillar into a butterfly, then one of the best ways to gather caterpillars safely is by laying a white sheet below their host plant.

Zebra swallowtail caterpillars are mostly green with one thicker blue, black and yellowish band close to the head. Thin yellow stripes accent their abdominal segments. Closer to hatching ...

Zebra swallowtails are finicky eaters - or at least their caterpillars are. The only host plant that the caterpillars will use is the papaw, a small tree along wooded streams.

Zebra Longwing Butterfly Caterpillar . DeadEyeArrow / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0. These formidable-looking caterpillars feed on the leaves of several species of passion flower (Passiflora).

Zebra, giants and pipevines ... and that is all the caterpillars will eat. ... The female giant will only lay eggs on plants in the citrus family, the caterpillar’s sole food.

I frequently see the caterpillar of the monarch butterfly around my garden, but I’ve never noticed any caterpillars that look like this guy. He was happily munching away on my passionflower vine ...

In 1996, Gov. Lawton Chiles designated the Zebra Longwing ... With its slow, graceful flight, this butterfly is easy to identify and fun to […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

As caterpillars, a favourite meal is the leaf of the toxic passion flower, making them - and the adult butterflies - a deadly snack for predators. The caterpillars can absorb the toxic compounds in ...

Caution. Orgy in progress. In a screened-in cubicle between Marilyn Kaidar’s back porch and back yard, a flock of zebra longwing butterflies are going at it, hammer and tongs. Their wings whirr ...

I have a wonderful red flowering passion vine, which is blooming heavily. It has lots of butterflies flying around it, mostly the beautiful zebra longwings. But when I look, I can't find any ...