common lime butterfly, chequered swallowtail (Papilio demoleus)

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Photo by Scott Frazier

Published on Project Noah

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Field Notes

Habitat:

Large semi-urban yard/garden adjacent to a patch of disturbed remnant forest.

Notes:

Nearly every afternoon this species alights on clumps of planted vertiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) in our yard. Today they were favoring (non-blooming) irises. This individual took flight just as I photographed it.

One of four species of previously alien Lepidoptera recorded in Papua (the Indonesian part of New Guinea) according to the Papua Insects Foundation.

Reference Links:

EOL: Papilio demoleus, Papilio demoleus

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