Where, how and when does Papilio machaon pupate

I saw it myself-its caterpillar climbs on a twig, rests its lower end on it, makes one thread, on which it rests approximately in the middle of the body, and its ends are attached to the twig. By the way, maybe not vechtochka-once I saw one pupa on a dried piece of manure. So the caterpillar hangs until it turns into a pupa. And at what time-probably very much depends on the place. I saw it in Baku in autumn-September-October.

They feed on zontnichnye, usually caterpillars pupate on/in the food plant. And when do they pupate in Russia? Well, in the Moscow region.

I was hatching this butterfly from an egg, so description. Interestingly, she refused to pupate on the stern. And in nature I did not meet pupae on forage plants. So is polyxena, despite the fact that it attaches pupae in the basal parts of the kirkazon - I did not find them there. And the pupa's home is anywhere but on kirkazon.

Where was the egg found?" And what it looks like.

Hiding from possible parasites?

In general, yes, I thought - a lot of caterpillars go on the road before pupation. But, there are exceptions. For example, the podaliriya caterpillar, which I raised from an egg, pupated on the stalk of a leaf. Interesting choice. It was a non-wintering pupa, so it was nothing yet. but if the hibernating one pupates like this, then it will fall to the ground with a leaf, and there it will probably be devoured.
Why polyxena on kirkazon does not pupate, I seem to understand - since I saw the place where kirkazon grows in winter. That kirkazon grew up there, only those who saw it there in the summer know. In winter, everything rots, there is no trace of aboveground parts, and the pupa will remain without support and attachment, again, on the ground.

I
picked up the Tyomochin egg while observing the laying female, both in podalirium and in swallowtail. And it looks-well, a whitish ball attached to a leaf, the swallowtail has approx. 1mm, with a larger feed size - up to 2 mm.

In the summer, he bred two swallowtails from caterpillars taken in nature on umbrella ones (one of them from dill in the garden). The caterpillars were already adults, ready to pupate. I put them in a three-liter jar with a few sprigs of fresh dill. They did not eat dill, but climbed up on the walls of the jar, threw a litter of silk threads in front of them on the wall of the jar. They crawled onto the bedding, attached themselves to it, threw a loop around them, and pupated upside down... The pupae were yellow-green in color. A butterfly came out of one about two weeks later. Dropped her off. I was waiting for the butterfly to come out of the second pupa. I didn't wait. After a while, light brown tones appeared in the color of the pupa. And a few days later (I didn't notice the time) I saw a small round hole in the wall of the pupa, about 1 mm in diameter. At the bottom of the jar were 3-4 small oval, open pupae of some parasites. The parasite imagos were hatched and managed to escape unnoticed from the open jar, but I never saw them. There was only one skin left of this swallowtail pupa and a couple of drops of some liquid at the bottom of the jar. Caterpillar discovery site: Zilair plateau in the Southern Urals.

This post was edited by Dompi - 27.03.2013 12: 17

It was interesting to bring out the poplar-leaved linnet (Gastropacha populifolia) from a caterpillar that I found on a poplar branch. I didn't remember what month or day I collected it. The caterpillar was incredibly similar to the bark of the branch in color and appearance. It was mature and ready for pupation. Pupated at home at the bottom of the jar, seemingly in a spider-like cocoon, the cocoon itself was in the poplar leaves fastened together with a web, placed on the bottom of the jar. After some time, a butterfly hatched from the pupa, also incredibly similar to a dry reddish leaf with dark veins and spots, the butterfly's head was elongated into an exact copy of the petiole of a dry leaf. I was struck by the wonders of masking the caterpillar and imago of this butterfly. The caterpillar was found in the Ufa district of the Republic of Bashkortostan, a poplar forest plantation in the vicinity of the village of Dubki.

This post was edited by Dompi - 27.03.2013 13: 10

In the summer, he bred two swallowtails from caterpillars taken in nature on umbrella ones (one of them from dill in the garden). The caterpillars were already adults, ready to pupate. I put them in a three-liter jar with a few sprigs of fresh dill. They did not eat dill, but climbed up on the walls of the jar, threw a litter of silk threads in front of them on the wall of the jar. They crawled onto the bedding, attached themselves to it, threw a loop around them, and pupated upside down... The pupae were yellow-green in color. A butterfly came out of one about two weeks later. Dropped her off. I was waiting for the butterfly to come out of the second pupa. I didn't wait. After a while, light brown tones appeared in the color of the pupa. And a few days later (I didn't notice the time) I saw a small round hole in the wall of the pupa, about 1 mm in diameter. At the bottom of the jar were 3-4 small oval, open pupae of some parasites. The parasite imagos were hatched and managed to escape unnoticed from the open jar, but I never saw them. There was only one skin left of this swallowtail pupa and a couple of drops of some liquid at the bottom of the jar. Caterpillar discovery site: Zilair plateau in the Southern Urals.

Reminded me (caterpillars of the last age were taken from nature, from umbrella plants). Swallowtails are constantly devoured: it was never obtained. It is better in my opinion to "milk" females and get offspring from scratch, in artificial conditions

Yes, they are removed from the captured caterpillars without problems, but not all infected ones. Even taken from the mountains. In Moscow, he brought out caterpillars, not to mention those from the region.