Papilio demoleus or the accepted adhesive butterfly is broadcast accepted and is one of the accepted swallowtail butterflies. This butterfly gets its name from the host plants which are usually the citrus breed like lime. Adhesive butterfly like added swallowtails do not accept a arresting tail. The accepted names of this butterfly are Lemon butterfly, Dingy swallowtail and Baby Citrus butterfly. The high apparent of wings is arena atramentous in colour. The forewings are characterized by attendance of chicken scales and chicken spots. Afterwards wings aswell accept chicken scales and chicken spots. The base of the wings has somewhat paler markings. Antennae are aphotic brownish amber and somewhat clubbed. Head, bust and belly are adusk black. Arch and thoraz accept chrism coloured streaks abnormally on the antecedent side. Bust and belly are bound by the attendance of chrism chicken streaks with longitudinal atramentous curve active to the end of the belly segment.
Lemon butterfly is calmly accessible in altered locations of the apple like India, Pakistan, Oman, Pacific Islands, Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is conceivably the a lot of broadly broadcast swallowtail in the world. Its accepted administration suggests that the butterfly is able to abide and acclimate in advanced ambit of habitats. They are present in the savannahs, dormant lands, gardens, beloved and semi-evergreen forests and prefers to reside abreast the beck and riverbeds. In India they are broadly broadcast in the plains but are begin in the Himalayan arena at the distance of 7,000 feet. It is a mud-paddler and visits flowers a lot of frequently. It basks by befitting its wings accessible on grasses and about fly aloft a beat aloft the arena even on blurred days. It relies on its quick flight for escape from enemies. It adopts altered modes of flight. During the aboriginal morning hours it flies actual boring but as the day progresses the acceleration of flight aswell increases. It prefers to appointment baby herbs rather than the ample plants. While comatose the butterfly folds its wings and draws the forewings amid the afterwards wings. A lot of abounding during and afterwards the cloudburst months. As the age of butterfly increases the chicken colour on the wings deepens to orange.
The changeable moves agilely from bulb to bulb in adjustment to lay eggs. She lays a individual egg on the high apparent of leaf. The egg is annular and bare in colour. The egg hatches into a caterpillar which stays in the centermost of the blade for some time. The aboriginal few instars resemble bird's debris and abide adequate from the predators even they reside in accessible environments. The caterpillars are yellow-olive blooming in colour with white spiracular bands. The 8th and 9th belly segments are characterized by attendance of white application of uric acerbic deposited in bird's droppings. As the development of the caterpillar progresses the affinity with bird's bottomward is absent and it becomes chicken blooming with white bands. An added bandage appears on the 4th and 5th belly segments with two atramentous and two bluish spots.
Besides appearance the caterpillars are attacked by a amount of wasps which act as parasitoids and lay eggs in the caterpillars due which the caterpillars die in due advance of time. The abounding developed caterpillar undergoes pupation. The pupa is blooming with no markings. It bears two projections one infront on its arch and the added on thorax. When pupa is anchored a part of the dry altar it becomes brownish blah in colour.