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| Black Swallowtail at Botanica Butterfly Garden
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The Black Swallowtail ranges throughout much of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere of the Americas. Here is a lovely film by Kim Smith. vocals by Liv, organ music by Kathleen Adams.
In the garden you may see the caterpillar feeding on leaves of the parsley family including Queen Anne's Lace, fennel, carrot, celery and dill. Females lay eggs on host plants. The egg stage lasts four to nine days, the
larval stage 10-30 days, and the pupal stage 18 days. Winter is spent in the chrysalis stage and adults emerge in the spring to feed on the nectar from a variety of flowers in open fields including
red clover, milkweed, and thistles.
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The best time to view in the United States and Canada, one to two flights from April-October. These images were taken in July at Botanica in Wichita, Kansas.
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