Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly
Hontz Resort
Shickshinny PA
2021

The spicebush swallowtail has black forewings with yellowish spots and light green hind wings with blue-green or blue dusting.


Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio troilus)


This beautiful black bodied swallowtail is black with shiny blue or green wings. It has blue between two rows of orange spots on the underside of the hind wings and the colors on the upper side of the hind wings have one row of white spots.

Papilio troilus, the spicebush swallowtail or green-clouded butterfly, is a common black swallowtail butterfly found in North America.

The swallowtails are unique in that even while feeding, they continue to flutter their wings. Unlike other swallowtail butterflies, spicebushes fly low to the ground instead of at great heights.