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Pest Remedies-Butterfly:
Butterfly, Black Swallowtail (See Parsleyworm Butterfly)
Butterfly, Cotton Square Borer (Strymon
melinus)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Lycaenidae
Description: Adult, wingspan about 25 mm (1"), light gray underwings, brown
forewings but females are browner, pair of tiny tails on each hindwing. Larvae,
cream, green or pink, covered with short brown hairs, stout, thick body.
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: Feeds on beans and other legumes.
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Gray Hairstreak ( See Cotton Square Borer Butterfly)
Butterfly, Imported White Cabbage
(Pieris rapae)
Order: Lepidoptera; Family: Pieridae
Description: Adult is white or pale yellow butterfly with 2 to 4 black spots and
(1 - 2 inch) 25 to 50 mm wingspan. Larvae is velvet green with yellow stripe Eggs
are yellowish and bullet shaped.
Life Cycle: Butterflies lay eggs under host leaves. After hatching, larvae pupate on
ground to overwinter. 2 or 3 generations per year in colder states but may reproduce all
year long in mild wintered areas.
Hosts/Damage: Larva  chew
large, irregular holes in cole crop leaves mainly. Tunnel extensively throughout cabbage
heads. Serious pest.
Controls:
Cultural - Row covers to exclude adults. Handpick larvae.
Biological - Bt for larvae. Trichogramma wasps eat eggs. Green lacewings and spined
soldier bugs attack larvae.
Chemical - Pyrethrum. Rotenone. Various other sprays and baits are available at your
nursery or hardware store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your
plant, yourself, your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Orangedog (Papilio
cresphontes)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family:
Description: ?
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: ?
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Orange-tip (? ?)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Pieridae
Description: Adult: Small white butterfly with underside of wing mottled with
green and tips of front wings are often orange. Uncommon and mostly found in West.
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: Larvae feed on shepherd's purse and related plants.
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Parsleyworm or
Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Papilionidae
Description:
Adult: Black with 2 rows of yellow spots around wing margins. Taillike
projections (swallowtails) on both hind wings. Larva, about 50 mm (2"), black
crossband on each plump green segment, 2 soft orange horns just back of head which are
extended when disturbed and expel sweet odor. Pupa, tan.
Life Cycle:
Spends winter as a pupa suspended from host in North but adult lives through winter in
South.Eggs are layed singly on leaves of host and hatch in 10 days. Larva feed for about 2
weeks.
Hosts/Damage: Larva feed on carrots, parsley and related plants; not a major pest.
Controls:
Cultural - Handpicking caterpillars or pupae may be sufficient.
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio
troilus)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Papilionidae
Description:
Adult, black with a row of small yellow spots along outer margin of the front
wing and extensive blue-green areas in the hind wing. Larvae, are 37 mm
(1-1/2"), largest diameter at 3rd segment, pea green on top with yellow sides, pink
head and underneath, 4 large and 10 small orange spots.
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: Larvae feed on spicebush and sassafras but usually not serious.
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Sulfur (? ?)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Pieridae
Description: Yellow or orange and most have wings bordered with black. Some are common.
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: Larvae feed on clover.
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio
glaucus)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Papilionidae
Description:
Adult, large butterfly which is brightly colored with yellow with black stripes
on forewing and black wing margins but some almost entirely black. Larvae, 37 mm
(1-1/2"), dark green, 3rd segment enlarged and marked with large yellow spot
enclosing a purple spot on each side.
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: Larvae feed on various trees.
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, White (? ?)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Pieridae
Description: White butterfly with black markings. The most common species is the
Imported White Cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae).
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: Imported White Cabbage butterfly larvae feed cabbage and related plants
and is a serious pest..
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - Bt
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Butterfly, Zebra Swallowtail (Graphium
marcellus)
Order: Lepidoptera ; Family: Papilionidae
Description: Adult, pale green with black stripes and has a long tail projection.
Life Cycle: ?
Hosts/Damage: Larvae feed on pawpaw.
Controls:
Cultural - ?
Biological - zzz
Chemical - Various other sprays and baits are available at your nursery or hardware
store. Follow label instructions carefully to avoid injury to your plant, yourself,
your pets or the environment.
Last edited: 07/13/98 01:09 AM
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