Question: I have heard that a specific pipevine is poisonous to the larva of Pipevine Swallowtails. Is this true? If so, what is the poisonous species of pipevine, and what other types can I plant ...

The giant swallowtail caterpillar has a smeary black and white pattern, and when it’s still small, it’s easy to miss because it looks like bird droppings. The pipevine caterpillar is dark ...

Is this a pipevine swallowtail caterpillar? That’s what it looked like to me when I went searching online, but they are rare and only seem to feed on the pipevine plant. I don’t know that I ...

The California pipevine swallowtail butterfly is a wonder to behold. It begins its life as a tiny red egg, hatches into an enormous orange-speckled caterpillar, and then — after a gestation ...

The pipevine swallowtail is highly poisonous, for its caterpillars feed on plants in the genus Aristolochia, which are defended by aristolochic acids. Pipevine swallowtail caterpillars consume the ...

Pipevine swallowtail butterflies, especially, employ some pretty mind-boggling tricks during their short lives. Take their caterpillar host plant, for example. Here in California, female pipevine ...

CHICO — It’s pipevine swallowtail season, meaning black and orange caterpillars are milling about all through Bidwell Park. Chico Park and Natural Resources Manager Shane Romain is advising ...

If this is the most common species planted, maybe caterpillars will eat it because they have no other choice. The Polydamas swallowtail butterfly is easy to tell apart from the Pipevine ...

It’s the pipevine swallowtail. “It’s named after its host plant because that’s the only thing the caterpillars eat,” butterfly nurturer Misty Johndro of Bristol explained recently.

If any caterpillars get overly problematic ... The spicebush swallowtail needs spicebush, the pipevine swallowtail needs Dutchman’s pipevine, and Baltimores need white turtlehead, according ...