Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly
by Terri Mills
Title
Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly
Artist
Terri Mills
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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© Terri Mills
Description taken from: Florida's Fabulous Butterflies - their stories by Emmel/Kenney ... The Zebra Swallowtail is the only U.S. representative of a tropical genus with many "kite-tailed" species, most of them predominantly white with black stripes and long tails. The spring brood has very short tails, while the summer and fall broods have successively longer tails. Tail length increases in successive generations during the year, reaching its maximum length in the fall brood. This butterfly is a familiar sight throughout Florida. They prefer woodlands along the rivers and in swampy areas. But the adults also range widely into drier habitats in search of nectar sources and may even stray from the mainland into the upper Florida Keys. The caterpillar's food plant, pawpaw, is not found in the Keys. Adults may be seen flying in the woods or in scrub habitats along the Atlantic Coastal Ridge in South Florida. They are usually abundant and widespread.
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September 24th, 2010
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