Porte-queue noir
Papilio polyxenes
Papillon
Porte-queue de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord dont les larves se nourrissent exclusivement de plantes de la famille des Apiacées (Apiaceae) — persil, aneth, fenouil, feuillage de carotte et rue-anémone indigène — ainsi que de quelques Rutacées. Le « ver du persil » est le moment de découverte classique au jardin qui initie les gens à l'écologie des plantes hôtes spécialistes : une petite plantation d'herbes aromatiques peut accueillir une population résidente sur plusieurs années. Les femelles adultes sont plus sombres que les mâles et imitent le porte-queue de la pipevine toxique ; les deux sexes butinent le nectar d'une grande variété de fleurs indigènes et ornementales.
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Plantes hôtes des larves · 8
Apiaceae specialist — carrot foliage is among the canonical garden hosts for black swallowtail.
Apiaceae specialist — parsley is the canonical garden host for black swallowtail caterpillars.
Celery is a carrot-family (Apiaceae) plant, and University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension documents that black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) caterpillars feed on cultivated dill, parsley, fennel, celery, caraway, and carrot in backyard gardens — where the caterpillar can even be considered a pest.
Black swallowtail caterpillars host on carrot-family plants (Apiaceae) including dill, fennel, parsley, and carrot; chervil is the same family and is a plausible occasional larval host when left to flower, though far less documented than the core Apiaceae hosts.
Black swallowtail caterpillars host on members of the carrot family (Apiaceae) including dill, fennel, parsley, and carrot; cilantro is the same family and is a plausible occasional larval host when allowed to flower, though it is far less documented than the core Apiaceae hosts.
Dill is a larval host plant for the black swallowtail butterfly — both the Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder and the NC State Plant Toolbox name it specifically as a larval host. The caterpillars feed on the lacy foliage of dill and other carrot-family plants before pupating into swallowtails.
Fennel is a larval host plant for swallowtail butterflies — the caterpillars chew on the foliage and morph into swallowtails (Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder; NC State Plant Toolbox). The black swallowtail is the classic Apiaceae-feeding swallowtail whose larvae feed on fennel and other carrot-family plants.
Missouri Botanical Garden PlantFinder names golden alexanders as a food plant for the larvae of the black swallowtail (and Ozark swallowtail) butterflies; the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center lists Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) as a larval host use.
Plantes à nectar · 1
Missouri Botanical Garden and NC State Extension both list Calendula officinalis as attracting butterflies; the showy open composite flowerheads offer accessible nectar to butterflies such as swallowtails, though the sources name only the butterfly category rather than this species.
Répartition
Est et centre des États-Unis ; du sud du Canada au nord du Mexique.