Largest Swallowtail butterflies of North America
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Attract the largest of butterflies to your garden, the swallowtails, by planting the food for larva and nectar flowers for the butterfly. This is the swallowtails by size
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1.
Thoas Swallowtail, Papilio thoas
wingspan : (10.5 - 12.8 cm) 4 1/8 - 5 inches
host plants : Plants in the citrus family
nectar : lantana, cesalpina, and bougainvilla.
5 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
2.
Schaus's Swallowtail, Papilio aristodemus
wingspan : (9.2–11.8 cm) 3.6–4.6 in
host plants : Plants in the citrus family
nectar : cheese-shrub, wild coffee, and guava.
4 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
3.
Giant Swallowtail, Papilio cresphontes
wingspan : 4 - 6 1/4 inches (10.2 - 16 cm)
| host plants : Trees and herbs of the citrus family
| nectar : lantana, azalea, bougainvilla, bouncing Bet, dame's rocket, goldenrod, Japanese honeysuckle, and swamp milkweed.
2 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
4.
Pipevine Swallowtail, Battus philenor
wingspan : (7-13 cm) 2 3/4 - 5 inches
host plants : Pipevine Aristolochia
2 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
5.
Variable Cattleheart, Parides erithalion
wingspan :
| host plants : Aristolochia cordiflora. dutchman's pipe
1 point - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
6.
Black Swallowtail, Papilio polyxenes
wingspan : (8 - 11 cm) 3 1/4 - 4 1/4 inches
host plants : parsley family : Queen Anne's Lace, carrot, celery and dill
nectar : red clover, milkweed, and thistles.
1 point - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
7.
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio Canadensis
wingspan : (6.7 - 8 cm) 2 5/8 - 3 1/8 inches
host plants : birch (Betula), aspen (Populus), and black cherry (Prunus).
nectar : many flowers
1 point - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
8.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio glaucus
wingspan : 3 5/8 - 6 1/2 inches (9.2 - 16.5 cm)
| host plants : wild cherry (Prunus), sweetbay (Magnolia), basswood (Tilia), tulip tree (Liriodendron), birch (Betula), ash (Fraxinus), cottonwood (Populus), mountain ash (Sorbus), and willow (Salix).
| nectar : many flowers, including wild cherry and lilac (Syringa vulgaris).
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
9.
Two-tailed Swallowtail, Papilio multicaudata
wingspan : (9 - 12.7 cm). 3 1/2 - 5 inches
host plants : ash (Fraxinus), hop tree (Ptelea), and chokecherry (Prunus)
nectar : thistles, milkweeds, California buckeye, lilac, more
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
10.
Short-tailed Swallowtail, Papilio brevicauda
wingspan : (8.2 - 10.2 cm)
host plants : Umbelliferae
nectar :
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
11.
Ozark Swallowtail, Papilio joanae
wingspan : (8.2 - 10.2 cm) 3 1/4 - 4 1/16 inches
host plants : Yellow pimpernal, meadow parsnip, golden alexander
nectar : rose verbena, wood betony, puccoon, and false garlic
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
12.
Spicebush Swallowtail, Papilio Troilus
wingspan : 3 - 4 inches (7.5 - 10 cm)
host plants : Spicebush (Lindera benzoin), sassafras trees (Sassafras albidum); perhaps prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum), tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), sweetbay (Magnolia virginiana), camphor (Cinnamomum camphora), and redbay (Persea borbonia).
nectar : Japanese honeysuckle, jewelweed, thistles, milkweed, azalea, dogbane, lantana, mimosa, and sweet pepperbush.
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
13.
Western Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio rutulus
wingspan : 2 3/4 - 4 inches (7 - 10 cm)
host plants : cottonwood and aspen (Populus), willows (Salix), wild cherry (Prunus), and ash (Fraxinus)
nectar : many flowers including thistles, abelia, California buckeye, zinnia, yerba santa.
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
14.
Pale Swallowtail, Papilio eurymedon
wingspan : (6.4 - 9 cm) 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 inches
host plants : Rosaceae, Rhamnaceae and Betulaceae families
nectar : California buckeye, yerba santa, and wallflower
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
15.
Old World Swallowtail, Papilio machaon
wingspan : (6.5 - 7.5 cm) 2 1/2 - 3 inches
host plants : Sagebrushes
nectar :
0 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
16.
Polydamas Swallowtail, Battus polydamas
wingspan : (9 - 12 cm) 3 1/2 - 4 1/2 inches
host plants : pipevine
host plants : lantana, honeysuckle, soapweed
-1 point - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
17.
Zebra Swallowtail, Eurytides Marcellus
wingspan : (6.4 - 10.4 cm). 2 1/2 - 4 inches
host plants : young pawpaw
nectar : blueberry, blackberry, lilac, redbud, viper\'s bugloss, verbena, dogbane, and common milkweed
-1 point - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
18.
Anise Swallowtail, Papilio zelicaon
wingspan : (7 - 9 cm) 2 3/4 - 3 1/2 inches
host plants : parsley, citrus family
nectar : Not reported
-1 point - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
19.
White-dotted Cattleheart, Parides alopius
wingspan : (7.5-9 cm) 3-3.5 inches
host plants : Watson's Pipevine
-1 point - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
20.
Montezuma's Cattleheart, Parides Montezuma
wingspan : not recorded
| host plants : ristolochia acanthophylla, Jalisco Dutchman's Pipe, Pelican Flower, Aristolochia micrantha
-2 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
21.
Palamedes Swallowtail, Papilio palamedes
wingspan : 4 1/2 - 5 1/8 inches (11.4 - 13 cm)
| host plants : Laurel (Lauraceae) especially redbay (Persea borbonia)
| nectar : sweet pepperbush, thistles, blue flag, and azalea
-3 points - added 14 years ago by amelco7 -
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