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    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail

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    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail

    Freshly emerged female

    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail
    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail

    Description: 47-64 mm. This is a large swallowtail that is brown in color and has orange-yellow spots on the outer margin of the forwing, extending into the hindwing. There is some faint greenish dusting and a red spot on the hindwing. The tails are not clubbed like other swallowtails and have a yellow line in the middle. Ventral hindwing has rows of bring orange and blue spots. They also have brick colored antennae.

     

    Habitat and Distribution: swamps and pine lands where host plants grow throughout Florida and in Northern Mexico

     

    Host Plant: Bay trees such as (Persea borbonia)

     

    Natural History: This species should be concidered a very rare stray to the Keys and has no breeding populations. There have been records in Key Largo

     

    Freshly emerged female

    Freshly emerged female

    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail
    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail egg

    Egg

    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail larva

    Final instar larva

    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail larva

    Final instar larva

    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail larva pre pupal

    larva in "J-possition"

    Papilio palamedes, Palamedes Swallowtail

    Freshly emerged male

    This adult fell victim to a green lynx xpider

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