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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Papilioglaucus

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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:

Mobile, Alabama

Vincent, Alabama

Deer, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

Marion, Arkansas

North Little Rock, Arkansas

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

New Milford, Connecticut

Bear, Delaware

Ellendale, Delaware

Apopka, Florida

Brooksville, Florida(2 reports)

Cape Coral, Florida

Deland, Florida

Jacksonville, Florida

Lutz, Florida

Orlando, Florida

Palm Coast, Florida

Palm Harbor, Florida

Quincy, Florida

Tallahassee, Florida

Tampa, Florida

Byron, Georgia

Cornelia, Georgia

Dacula, Georgia

Dallas, Georgia

Algonquin, Illinois

Cary, Illinois

Cherry Valley, Illinois

Chester, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

Divernon, Illinois

Elmhurst, Illinois

Galva, Illinois

La Grange Park, Illinois

Oak Lawn, Illinois

Park Forest, Illinois

Princeton, Illinois

Rock Falls, Illinois

Westchester, Illinois

Indianapolis, Indiana

Jeffersonville, Indiana

Inwood, Iowa

Yale, Iowa

Benton, Kentucky

Cadiz, Kentucky

Ewing, Kentucky

Goshen, Kentucky

Hebron, Kentucky

Denham Springs, Louisiana

La Place, Louisiana

Minden, Louisiana

Durham, Maine

Crofton, Maryland

Fallston, Maryland

Frederick, Maryland

Linthicum Heights, Maryland

Oakland, Maryland

Rockville, Maryland

Halifax, Massachusetts

Swansea, Massachusetts

Dearborn Heights, Michigan

Royal Oak, Michigan

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wayzata, Minnesota

Florence, Mississippi

Madison, Mississippi

Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Ripley, Mississippi

Tupelo, Mississippi

Wiggins, Mississippi

Cole Camp, Missouri

Lincoln, Nebraska

Hudson, New Hampshire

Maplewood, New Jersey

Marlton, New Jersey

Brooklyn, New York

Himrod, New York

St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Cary, North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Concord, North Carolina

Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Greensboro, North Carolina

Mooresville, North Carolina

Oxford, North Carolina

Pittsboro, North Carolina

Raleigh, North Carolina

Bucyrus, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio(2 reports)

Guysville, Ohio

Medina, Ohio

Newark, Ohio

Kellyville, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Alexandria, Pennsylvania

Middleburg, Pennsylvania

Monongahela, Pennsylvania

Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Lexington, South Carolina

Okatie, South Carolina

Saint Matthews, South Carolina

Lebanon, Tennessee

Pocahontas, Tennessee

Arlington, Texas

Desoto, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Garland, Texas

Harker Heights, Texas

Houston, Texas

Lewisville, Texas

Lufkin, Texas

Mc Kinney, Texas

San Antonio, Texas

Leesburg, Virginia

Roanoke, Virginia

Seattle, Washington

Liberty, West Virginia

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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themikeman

Concord, NC (Zone 7a) | September 2010 | Positive

Very beautiful, especially the female that has the brilliant blue on the bottom edges of her wings. these love my 'laura' phlox and my purple butterfly bush..mike.

twopuppies

Chester, IL | May 2008 | Positive

It really depends upon where you look to see seemingly pipevine swallowtails- Red spotted purples are very similar as are Diana fritillaries(though the Diana's are quite a bit larger and very rare in most places). As far as swallowtails the spicebush and black swallowtails are very similar as well. The pipevine swallowtails have a distinctive flight pattern and a very different color if you know what to look for. Net them and take a closer look! Here in places where Tiger swallowtails are common perhaps 80% of the black butterflys on red clover are tigers one of two percent are pipevines and the rest are other species of swallowtails with an occasional dark Danaid or Speyeria. Milkweed is the place for me to find pipevines and I see many spicebush swallowtails on wild mints.

Malus2006

Coon Rapids, MN (Zone 4a) | January 2008 | Positive

This butterfly is very common in the Eastern United States. Adult forms comes out mid to late summer. Tend to be solitary, moving over a large range, mainly searching trees and other plants for the right host to lay eggs. Comes to flowers of a wide variety. I have notice it feeding on petunias and joe pye weeds in my yard and a wide variety of butterfly flowers in public gardens. There are also a black phase - books said that only females can be in this phase - copy pipevine swallowtails pretty good - only faint marks can be seen - giving the butterfly a bit more lighter color appearance. Maybe 10 to 20% of all seemly pipevine swallowtail that we see are actually black phase of tiger swallowtail?