Category: Overwinter in a state called diapause

  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtails Do Not Migrate

    The Virginia state insect, the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) doesn’t migrate but hunkers down in leaf litter as a chrysalis and waits out the winter in a state much like hibernation, called diapause. I don’t have any photographs of the chrysalis stage of the Tiger Swallowtail, but do have an image of a caterpillar…