Baby black swallowtail butterflies are beautiful and common. Sue Pike [email protected]. We have a large patch of bronze fennel growing out back — this is unfortunate because it can ...

All spicebush and black swallowtails resemble the model, while only some female Eastern tiger swallowtails are blackish. The red-spotted purple butterfly is also a pipevine mimic, ...

Black swallowtails prefer to lay eggs on carrot, celery, dill, fennel, parsley, Queen Anne’s lace and other members of the carrot family. In my garden, they seem to prefer the fennel over all ...

You might already love watching swallowtails in the garden, but there's much more to learn about these stunning pollinators. Enjoy these fascinating swallowtail butterfly facts. A female black ...

Members of the Umbelliferae family, like fennel, dill and carrots, all of which are host plants for black swallowtail caterpillars, produce furocoumarins as a defense against micro-organisms.

Both adults and larvae suffer from extensive predation. They are eaten by spiders, dragonflies, robber flies, and, as you can ...

Columnist Mary Reid Barrow may have been giving the spicebush swallowtail short shrift and often mistaking it for a black swallowtail over the years. Skip to content. All Sections.

So, I decided to look closer at the Black Swallowtail caterpillar host plants which I grow in my garden: Parsley, fennel, and celery; all members of the Apiaceae family. And as I hoped, I spotted ...

In her view, the black swallowtail was the logical choice because it’s found in all 21 counties — rural to urban — and lives its entire life cycle in New Jersey.