Yesterday I saw a butterfly hit by a car — a spicebush swallowtail. From Wordnik.com. [Summer is already winding down] Reference
This is a caterpillar of the butterfly spicebush swallowtail Papilio troilus. From Wordnik.com. [Yellow caterpillar ready to go] Reference
Sheila: along those lines–this butterfly is probably a spicebush swallowtail. From Wordnik.com. [Swallowtail | clusterflock] Reference
While he waited he regarded a spicebush just on the other side of the fence, ice beginning to cling to the red berries. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Strong and healthy, he didn't mind living for weeks at a time on venison, spicebush tea, hickory nuts, and thorn apples. From Wordnik.com. [The Toughest Deer Hunter Ever] Reference
So that is how Seyganko came to the western shore of the Lake of Death on the night that Conan sat keeping watch beside the spicebush where Valeria slept. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
Fall stroll with staff horticulturist Deanne Eversmeyer featuring native plants such as American serviceberry, American yellowwood, Virginia sweetspire, spicebush, fragrant sumac, native ferns and grasses. 10 a.m. From Wordnik.com. [Green Scene: The bounty of fall includes tours, lectures and workshops] Reference
Brown put it in his 1971 biography, "to sing of native birds like the brown thrasher and bobolink rather than the skylark and nightingale, of the spicebush or the late-blooming fringed gentian rather than Britain's gorse or primrose.". From Wordnik.com. [From Verse to Controversy -- And Fleeting Fame] Reference
'The habitat was a spicebush stand amidst a red maple forest. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The spicebush has a spicy scent and is used for tea as well as seasoning. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Zebra swallowtails plus eastern tiger, pipevine, spicebush, palamedes and giant swallowtails. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
It can work as a groundcover under oaks, or with native shrubs like spicebush or wild currant. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
The caterpillars live in folded leaf shelters and eat the leaves of the sassafras or spicebush. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Like spicebush caterpillars, these guys hide in rolled up leaves of their hostplant during the day. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
But we couldn't complain about the maple-scented Escallonia viscosa, or the spicebush with its wine-barrel odor. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
There were clam shells piled up with red checkerberries, and caddis worms on the half shell, with spicebush nubbins. From Wordnik.com. [Woodland Tales] Reference
That said, butterfly fanciers will be saddened by the scarcity of now-common but soon-to-be-rare spicebush swallowtails. From Wordnik.com. [University of Florida News] Reference
The hairy woodpecker devours many of the above fruits, as well as those of spicebush, sour gum, cherries, grapes, blackberries. From Wordnik.com. [Seed Dispersal] Reference
The same is true of the other trees and shrubs that may be affected, he said, including various members of the spicebush family. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage] Reference
A discussion ensued as to why some of the participants had never had spicebush caterpillars on THEIR camphor (or sassafras) trees. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
PLANTS Profile for Lindera benzoin (northern spicebush) | USDA PLANTS Amazon. com: The Scavengers 'Manifesto (9781585427178): Anneli. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
But I have seen precious few of them amongst the numerous pipevine, tiger and spicebush swallowtails that flitted through my summer landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Roundtop Ruminations] Reference
He says many plants and trees -- spring beauty, spicebush, oaks and maples -- are emerging or flowering earlier than usual because of higher temperatures. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
Butterfly species seen in abundance around the Shoals this year include spicebush swallowtails, tiger swallowtails, gulf frittilaries and cloudless sulphurs. From Wordnik.com. [WTVY - HomePage - Headlines] Reference
However, in contrast to the whimsical spicebush cats, leafwing catepillars are rather drab, greenish with whitish bumps on the body, and a slightly warty, dark head. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
And besides, the butterflies really do seem to prefer the hostplant they are named for - spicebush (Lindera benzoin) - but it really doesn't do all that well in our area. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
An 'back a little an' there's jest thickets of papaw, an 'thorns, an' wild grape-vines, an 'crab, an' red an 'black haw, an' dogwood, an 'sumac, an' spicebush, an 'trees!. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Cardinal] Reference
Finally we saw a really big butterfly - the powerful and dramatic spicebush swallowtail, which we were able to identify on the wing (it never landed) as a male because of the greenish. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
No butterflies were flying, but one of the participants quickly pointed out a smallish camphor tree that had the characteristic rolled leaves housing my favorite caterpillar, the spicebush swallowtail. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
A particularly popular garden featured nonaggressive, environmentally friendly native plants including spicebush and Jacob's ladder, plus mulch made of recycled materials such as tires, cocoa shells, or, believe it or not, beads of glass. From Wordnik.com. [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference
‘The habitat was a spicebush stand amidst a red maple forest. From Wordnik.com. [A Caterpillar That Pretends to be a Fearsome Snake | Impact Lab] Reference
½ teaspoon grated dried spicebush berries. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"What of the spicebush?. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
1/2 teaspoon grated dried spicebush berries. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
The previously cited publication also lists host plants: aster, birch, black cherry, clover, cottonwood, dill, parsley, sassafras, snapdragon, spicebush, tulip tree, violet and willow. From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference
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