Banded swallowtail
The banded swallowtail is a big brownish black butterfly. A wide, pale greenish band runs across all four of its wings like a sash. It lives in Southeast Asia, even in mangroves and on small islands.
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Fun facts
The mother lays her eggs in a long string, and they hatch in only 3 or 4 days.
Its caterpillars stay together in groups their whole caterpillar life.
After about twelve days in the chrysalis, the butterfly comes out.
You can see the grown-ups from January to October.
Most asked questions about Banded swallowtail
?How big is the banded swallowtail?
Its wings are about 75 to 95 millimetres across, about as wide as a grown-up's palm.
?What does the banded swallowtail caterpillar eat?
Mostly leaves of citrus plants, like lemon and orange trees, and their relatives.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Papilio demolion
- Named by
- Cramer, 1776
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Papilionidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Papilionidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Papilio demolion (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by green baron too. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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