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Old 02-19-2012, 05:31 PM   #290 (permalink)
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Mystery solved - it is a Chinese Yellow Swallowtail caterpillar. Smaller ones look like bird crap, larger form looks like snake head, and the chrysalis (which I'm trying to find) starts green, slowly turns dusty brown from which emerges a black and white swallowtail. I didn't see yellow in the photos so I down't know why the name has yellow in it.
YUCK..... I dont like them things.. we have a lot of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail's here and they munch on my citrus trees . Plus they lay eggs in 15 different location on the trees under the leaves and hardly ever on a leaf where they been feeding .. Pretty to look at as adults but disgusting leaf eating critters as pupa or worms ...
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