cresphontes

Updated: May 26, 2025

I count as one of my red-letter days that on which I found him brooding over the little gray-brown chrysalis of the Papilio Cresphontes, that splendid swallowtail whose hideous caterpillar we in the South call the orange puppy, from the fancied resemblance the hump upon it bears to the head of a young dog.

Marie Conway Oemler - Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man