Blackswallowtail butterflies range across North America. They are lovely black and yellow butterflies with a small amount of blue and red on their hind legs. Their larvae are large 2 inch (5 cm.) long caterpillars with voracious appetites. Doblackswallowtailseatcarrots? What DoBlackSwallowtailsEat? The butterflies feed on nectar from flowers. Caterpillars feed on plants in the carrot family, which includes dill, fennel, parsley, and carrots. Blackswallowtails favor flat-topped flowers, with host plants like fennel, carrots, and rue. Common lilacs serve as a host for Eastern tiger swallowtails. What caterpillars eatcarrot leaves? How can you tell if a blackswallowtail is male or female? Do birds eatblackswallowtail caterpillars? What fruit do butterflies like to eat? Who eats butterfly? What doblackswallowtailseat? Blackswallowtails feed on the nectar from a variety of flowering plants, including thistles and milkweed. They extract the nectar through the proboscis, a long, hollow tongue-like tube. We found a blackswallowtail caterpillar in our garden, now he's in our house. What doblackswallowtail butterflies eat? Like other butterflies, blackswallowtails feed on flowering plants. The types of plants they feed from depends on their location and the availability of certain plant species. What Adult BlackSwallowtailsEat. The BlackSwallowtail Life Cycle.BlackSwallowtail caterpillars are picky eaters! They only eat plants from the carrot family. These plants are called "host plants." Here are some of the plants they like Blackswallowtails are sometimes called parsley swallowtails because their caterpillars mostly eat plants in the parsley family. Some of these plants include parsley, carrot greens, and Queen Anne’s lace. DoBlackSwallowtails Look Like Tiger Swallowtails? Lovely blackswallowtail caterpillars nibbling on a large, potted Rue plant in MD. The pot sits right between tall, bronze dill and a lush bin of new carrots. They seem to prefer the Rue. I read that swallowtail caterpillars eat Rue in native habitats, but never had them do it here.
