KINGDOM: AnimaliaPHYLUM:
CLASS: Insecta
ORDER: Lepidoptera
FAMILY: Papilionidae
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Papilio troilus
COMMON NAME(S): Spicebush Swallowtail
NOTES OF INTEREST: All the photos of this creature I can find show a GREEN caterpillar...don't know why this one is orange...but the markings are identical to the spicebush...perhaps a sub-species? This caterpillar went into its chrysalis within a day or two of us finding it. We waited several weeks...it never emerged. Perhaps intended to winter-over?
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