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  • Baindur recorded 28 species of butterfly from six families during May-June 1993, including common yellow swallowtail Papilo machaon, common blue apollo Parnassius hardwickei, dark clouded yellow Colias electo, Queen of Spain Issoria iathonia, and Indian tortoiseshell Aglais cashmirensis.

    Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

  • A few of the more evident species are lime butterfly Papilio demoleus demoleus, common yellow swallowtail Papilio machaon, common mormon Papilio polytes romulus, spangle Papilio protenor protenor and common blue apollo Parnassius hardwickei.

    Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Park, India 2008

  • For either they are protectively encased in horrid hairs, which get down your throat and choke you and bother you (I speak as a bird, from the point of view of a confirmed caterpillar eater), or else they are bitter and nasty to the taste, like the larva of the spurge moth and the machaon butterfly.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

  • Such changes are, however, by no means universal, or even common, in protectively coloured pupae, since in Papilio machaon and some others which have been experimented on, both in this country and abroad, no change can be produced on the pupa by any amount of exposure to differently coloured surroundings.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • : Old World Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) Mariposa Road By Robert Michael Pyle

    Butterfly Quest Harry Zirlin 2010

  • In the larva of Papilio machaon the protection is very real when the larva is on the food-plant, and can hardly be appreciated at all when the two are apart. "

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

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