To keep track of current natural events like when to watch for the emergence of zebra swallowtail butterflies, you can get your own Natural Events Calendar from the Missouri Department of Conservation. Though Emily Dickinson wrote "the butterfly doesn’t know its name and hasn’t any tax to pay and hasn’t any home," in her poem “The Butterfly upon the Sky”, you can use these tips to tempt them to visit and return to sip the nectars and enjoy the blooms in your yard. ![]() Blackberry, blueberry, dogbane, lilac, and milkweed are among their favorites. If you’d like to host these flitting beauties in your yard, plant some paw paw, spice bush or tulip tree to for caterpillars to attach to or raise some nectar bearing plants for butterfly feeding. They produce two to three generations per year. ![]() However, this butterfly also displays small red and blue markings on the bottom corners of both two and a half to four inch wings. Zebra swallowtail caterpillars (Graphium marcellus) are present from May to November. ![]() The zebra swallowtail is named for its distinctive black and white striped pattern which imitates a zebra. Perhaps you can find inspiration watching the zebra swallowtails emerge this week from our wooded areas. No other creature has inspired so many admiring verses as the butterfly. Robert Frost described butterflies as “flowers that fly and all but sing” in his poem, "Blue-Butterfly Day."Īccording to Victor Hugo’s "Genesis of a Butterfly" they are like torn love-letters that through the skies, "Flutter, and float, and change to butterflies." Joseph Warton described the butterfly as “Nature’s completest miniature divine.” It’s easy to imagine him strolling through a wooded area before he wrote his Verses on a Butterfly. When searching for inspiration, many famous writers step outside to discover nature and write down their finds. I’m ever amazed at the wonders of nature, which certainly include the life cycles of butterflies and I thoroughly enjoyed observing this one.Step outside this week and discover nature as zebra swallowtail butterflies emerge and grace our woodland areas. 1 review for Pawpaw Tree (Asimina triloba) for Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies. After a couple of hours, it’s wings were hardened, it took flight and was gone. The Zebra Swallowtail caterpillars and butterflies are interesting and beautiful and this tree is the only invitation to bring them in your garden Weight: 1.01 lbs: Timing: Send Now, Spring 2023. Two weeks later it emerged from its chrysalis at the left of this image and became a mature buttefly. Zebra swallowtail butterfly and chrysalis One week later it was about one inch long, and it then made this chrysalis. Painted Lady caterpillars are particularly easy to keep because you can buy a. If you are short on time or if the season is wrong for caterpillar hunting, there are several companies that supply caterpillars. At this stage it is about one-half inch long and feeding on paw-paw leaves, the only leaves it will eat. Cecropia Moth, Viceroy, Red-Spotted Purple. This is the zebra swallowtail caterpillar, which my friend, Connie brought to me. This photograph is special to me, because the butterfly is one I raised, and it was made shortly after the butterfly emerged from its chrysalis. ![]() And I have seen it in our Lexington, Kentucky, backyard twice in the last two years. I’ve often seen this butterfly while hiking woodland streams and watching for spring wildflowers. The Zebra swallowtail is one of my favorite butterflies.
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