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Black swallowtail caterpillar - does he have a chance???

lucygreenthumb
16 years ago

Hi all,

I was puttering around in my garden this weekend and discovered a large black swallowtail caterpillar on the parsey I'd planted to feed them. Great, except that we're in zone 4 with our average first frost during the month of October.

So I'm wondering why I have a caterpillar this late in the season and how he'll get through the winter. He's about an inch and a half long and absolutely beautiful. I'm hoping he'll atleast become a butterfly - though proabably with a shorter lifespan????

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