Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: A Pipevine Swallowtail at Last !!!, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Nope, the Pipevine cats out here are bright orange 99.9% of the time :o) I've only seen one dark instar in the past few years. I like the bright orange - makes them really easy to spot from a good distance away :o) The bright orange coloring also serves as a warning to predators - I've never noticed any bugs or wasps trying to kill them.

This is the only dark form I've seen. Photographed this one on 06/13/09 and brought it home to raise. It emerged as a regular Pipevine - nothing different from the orange cats.

~ Cat

This message was edited Jun 27, 2009 9:27 PM