Look what I saw today

14 years ago

I don't know where else to post this on Garden web. Isn't it gorgeous? It hovered for over an hour, loving my impatiens. Is it from a parsley worm?

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lindacatherine
14 years ago
Very nice Tiger Swallowtail. As far as host plants for the cats, they tend to like trees: poplar, willows, aspens, sycamores and cherry trees. Any of those nearby?
Black swallowtails feed on parsley, dill, fennel and carrot tops.
MissSherry
14 years ago
She's beautiful!
Sherry
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Living in Oklahoma and Texas I have seen plenty of twisters and I agree with you the way the smoke coiled and twisted up to the cloud is giving it a little bit of a twister look. I get what you are saying, not really a twister but smoke that gives you the impression of a twister. And seeing it at a glance would have made even me stop and take a closer look. Beautiful area of countryside. Dinner was wings at Buffalo Wild wings and a very long wait, they had 700 to go orders, people were waiting in line at to go for well over an hour. We sat down and waited for almost an hour to get ours. I thought a war was going to break out at the counter. It was crazy people were getting up and walking out without getting food it was taking so long. Good thing I went in not very hungry, but by the time the food came I was definitely glad to see it.
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tdogmom
14 years ago
Lovely!
bananasinohio
14 years ago
Tigers use a variety of tree species (more than 9 different families) and develop a preference as they age (aging seems like the wrong verb for an insect that lives only 1-3 weeks). They eventually develop a preference for Tulip trees. That is what they lay eggs on for us in the house.

-Elisabeth

Absence of behavioral induction in oviposition preference of Papilio glaucus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
Scriber, JM
Great Lakes Entomologist [GREAT LAKES ENTOMOL.]. Vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 81-95. 1993.

This study addressed the possible behavioral induction effects of previous exposure to several specific host plants on subsequent host "preference hierarchy" and "specificity" (i.e., how far down the ranking order a female will go) in the most polyphagous swallowtail butterfly in the world, Papilio glaucus (Papilionidae). Multi-choice preference bioassays using individual females in revolving arenas were used to assess one of the potentially most significant non-genetic sources of variation: learned (or induced) oviposition preferences. Results of the 4-choice studies using tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera; Magnoliaceae), black cherry (Prunus serotina; Rosaceae), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides; Salicaceae), and hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata; Rutaceae), fail to show any significant oviposition preference induction with two-day prior exposure to any of the host species tested. It appears that the eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, while polyphagous as a species (feeding on more than 9 families of plants), and variable in its population responses to oviposition favorites, has what may be considered a genetic "hard-wiring" at an individual level, with no evidence that preferences change with recent oviposition experience. Older females were not and did not become more random in their choices, and in fact increased in their specificity for tulip tree leaves.

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