Re: Giant swallowtail butterflies

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Giant swallowtail butterflies
• From: Cathy Carpenter c*@insightbb.com
• Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:11:30 -0500
• In-reply-to: 20060711234606.GA1109@mallorn.com
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They are camouflaged to look like bird droppings!

Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Jul 11, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:

> While trimming some branches to fill the yard waste bag for tomorrow's
> pickup I noticed several large, black and white caterpillars lying
> atop a gas plant much smaller than I remember.
>
> I raced inside to look them up and learned that these are "giant  
> swallowtail
> butterfly" caterpillars:
>
>    http://hort.net/+13r9
>
> Guess I'll leave them!  I think the gas plant will survive.  :)
>
> Chris
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