Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Dark Morph
by Chad Meyer
Title
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Dark Morph
Artist
Chad Meyer
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
A eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly with the dark morph color. In the dark morph, the areas that are normally yellow are replaced with dark gray or black. The bluish postmedian area on the ventral hind wing has one row of orange spots. A shadow of the "tiger stripes" can be seen on the underside of some dark females
Did you know the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail is the state butterfly of North Carolina? It was selected because it can be found in all 100 counties of North Carolina and is easy to locate and recognize.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtails are yellow with black stripes, and have a wingspan of three to six inches. They can be found in many habitats, including woods, fields, near rivers and creeks, or in gardens. The butterfly larvae eat leaves, while adults eat flower nectar.
The female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail will lay single green eggs on leaves, which then hatch into caterpillars. The Caterpillars are brown and white when they are young, but as they grow they turn green with orange and black false eyespots. These spots fool predators into thinking the caterpillar is much larger than it truly is
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September 11th, 2023
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