Photo courtesy of John Campbell

The Pipevine swallowtail (3.0-4.5") ranges from southern New England westward to the pacific Coast and southward into Mexico. It is absent in the northwest.

I can still remember a warm sunny day in July in New Jersey when my cousin and I were out bicycling. We spotted a philenor, a real rarity in that part of the country, and had quite a debate about who was going to race home to get a butterfly net and who was going to track the butterfly. My cousin wanted the catch and insisted he'd get the net.

I tracked the butterfly carefully as it was flying slowly in search of Dutchman's pipevine, the larval host plant. A few minutes later I was joined by my cousin in an alley way between two houses. The female philenor had found some Dutchman's pipe growing up a tressle on one wall between the two houses.

I don't remember getting any eggs from the specimen. I think it went into my cousin's collection!

Larval photo courtesy of Mark Deering. Larvae emerge from orange eggs laid in clusters on pipevine, snakeroot or ginger. Butterfly image courtesy of W. T. Hark.

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Danaus plexippus migrant stray Limenitis archippus Limenitis arthemis arthemis.................... Nymphalis antipoa Nymphalis milberti Papilio polyxenes asterius Papilio canadensis Pieris rapae Polygonia interrogationis Polygonia satyrus Vanessa atalanta Vanessa cardui migrant stray Vanessa virginiensis migrant stray

Monarch Viceroy White admiral Mourning cloak Milbert's tortoise shell Black swallowtail Canadian Tiger swallowtail Cabbage white Question mark Satyr comma Red admiral Painted lady American painted lady

Google is one of my favourite Search Engines and seems to offer the most extensive listing of butterfly sites. Use your back arrow to return to this site after using the Google search box to the left.

To use Google most effectively, type in either the complete Latin name for the butterfly or the complete common name followed by the word butterfly. If I wanted additional information about the red admiral, I would type in "Vanessa atalanta" or "red admiral butterfly" and then click on the Google Go button to the left.

Here are some additonal northeastern North American butterflies of interest. To my knowledge, these species do not fly on Prince Edward Island, but I have reared most of them as a boy growing up in rural New Jersey.

Battus philenor Junonia coenia Limenitis arthemis astanax..................... Papilio cresphontes Papilio glaucus Papilio troilus

Pipevine swallowtail Buckeye Red-spotted purple Giant swallowtail Eastern Tiger swallowtail Spicebush swallowtail

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ARCTIIDAE (TIGER MOTHS)
SATURNIIDAE (SILK MOTHS) OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: rearing info.
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SPHINGIDAE OF THE AMERICAS
KIRBY WOLFE COLLECTION OF WORLDWIDE SATURNIIDAE
THIBAUD DECAENS COLLECTION OF WORLDWIDE SATURNIIDAE
TIM DYSON NIGHT VISION PHOTOGRAPHY (Catocala)
NORTH AMERICAN CATOCALA

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