"All parts of the pipevine plant, including the seed pods, are toxic to humans. In contrast, caterpillars can ingest the toxins, but then they become unappetizing to birds.

The pipevine swallowtail caterpillar feeds exclusively on pipevine plants that contain active aristolochic acids, which the caterpillars hold in store for their butterfly selves to use as a ...

Monarch butterflies are famous for having caterpillars that eat milkweed. This habit allows them to take in chemicals that make even the adults taste bad to predators. The pipevine swallowtail ...

Pipevine swallowtail caterpillars consume the leaves and store or sequester poisonous aristolochic acids, which are retained by pupae and adults. Pipevine swallowtails are aposematically colored--the ...

Wong attributes his success largely to the favorable habitat he’s created for the caterpillars. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 California pipevine plants.

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 ...

Pipevine swallowtail caterpillars consume the leaves and store or sequester poisonous aristolochic acids, which are retained by pupae and adults.

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 a butterfly of exceptional beauty that’s rarely seen in Connecticut. It’s mainly black in color, blending into iridescent blue on top near its wing edges at the rear. The underside is ...