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Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Go to a coloring Page Printout Tiger
Swallowtail butterfly These butterflies are called swallowtails
because they have long "tails" on their hindwings which look a
bit like the long, pointed tails of swallows (a type of bird).
|Egg: A butterfly starts its life as an egg. The female Tiger
Swallowtail butterfly lays its spherical, yellow-green eggs on
the leaf high in a tulip tree, sweet bay, wild black cherry,
ash, lilac, aspen=, birch, or choke cherry. When the egg
hatches, its meals (the leaves of one of these plant) are easily
available.| |Caterpillar: The larva (caterpillar) hatches from
an egg and eats the egg shell. Then it eats leaves (almost
constantly). The newly-hatched larva is brown and white, and
looks like bird droppings, but it turns green later. The
caterpillar molts (loses its old skin) many times as it grows.
The caterpillar is plump, smooth,