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#312 - Orchard Swallowtail

photo by Aviceda

Papilio aegeus, the Orchard or Large Citrus Swallowtail. The largest butterfly you get around Sydney, and a minor pest of citrus. Personally, I'll happily have a few caterpillars around the place in return for more butterflies like this. Pretty much restricted to the east coast.

While their ARE native citrus in Australia - the Finger Lime and Desert Lime, for example -  the larvae also feed on other plants, including Boronia, and Prickly-Ash.

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#257 - Red-bodied Swallowtail

Atrophaneura semperi.

Back in the mid-nineties I did six months of entomology as part of my university degree in Marine Science (Of the two, the entomology has been much more useful by way of employment status).

Anyway, part of the course was making an insect collection, which I enthusiastically threw myself into, and spent hours before class at the Center for Entomological Research and Insecticide Technology, keying out my catches. I ended up with several hundred species, dozens of families, and 6 cases of the things, including many you'll be seeing over coming months, and a few you have already.

This butterfly was the reward for the best collection that year.

Red-bodied Swallowtails are a genus of tropical Papilionid, usually found in the Indomalayan zone, that feed on Dutchman's Pipes. The caterpillars sequester aristolochic acid from the plant, which is highly poisonous, and helpfully advertise the fact with their striking coloration.