Common Butterflies In D.C.
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Black Swallowtail butterflies drink nectar from thistle, red clover, milkweed, and phlox. They live around fields, parks, and meadows.
Black Swallowtail catterpillar
This caterpillar eats many things. For example, they eat Queen Anne’s Lace, celery, parsley, carrots, dill, and parsnip.
Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly
This Butterfly drink nectar from Japanese honeysuckle, jewelweed, thistles, milkweed, azalea, dogbane, lantana, mimosa, and sweet pepperbush. Also they are poisonous.
Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar
There habitat can be deciduous woodlands, fields, roadsides, yards, pine barrens, wooden swamps, and parks.
Giant Swallowtail Butterfly
The Giant Swallowtail Butterfly eats leaves from an orange tree, and feed on things from the citrus family including sweet orange, lime, and the hoptree. There habitat is rocky and sandy hillsides near streams or gullies.
Giant Swallowtail butterfly caterpillar
A Giant Swallowtail Butterfly eats a lot of things in the citrus family and it also eats different types of prickly ash.