The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 40 Numbers 1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 2007 Numbers Article 4 1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 2007 April 2007 Do Generalist Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly emalesF Select Dark Green Leaves Over Yellowish – Or Reddish-Green Leaves for Oviposition? Rodrigo J. Mercader Michigan State University Rory Kruithoff Michigan State University J. Mark Scriber Michigan State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation Mercader, Rodrigo J.; Kruithoff, Rory; and Scriber, J. Mark 2007. "Do Generalist Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Females Select Dark Green Leaves Over Yellowish – Or Reddish-Green Leaves for Oviposition?," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 40 (1) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol40/iss1/4 This Peer-Review Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at
[email protected]. Mercader et al.: Do Generalist Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Females Select Dark Gre 2007 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST 29 DO GENERALIST TIGER SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY FEMALES SELECT DARK GREEN LEAVES OVER YELLOWISH – OR REDDISH-GREEN LEAVES FOR OVIPOSITION? Rodrigo J. Mercader1, Rory Kruithoff1, and, J. Mark Scriber1, 2 ABSTRACT In late August and September, using leaves from the same branches, the polyphagous North American swallowtail butterfly species Papilio glaucus L. (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) is shown to select mature dark green leaves of their host plants white ash, Fraxinus americana L. (Oleaceae) and tulip tree, Liri- odendron tulipifera L.