1.9K views · 351 reactions | Western Giant Swallowtail, Papilio rumiko 曆 | Butterfly Farms | Facebook

🇯🇲🦋 Jamaica’s Giant Butterfly – A Rare Beauty at Risk The Homerus Swallowtail (Papilio homerus) is the Caribbean’s most spectacular insect — and the largest butterfly in the Western Hemisphere. Once spread across seven parishes, it now survives in only two: the eastern population in the Blue and John Crow Mountains, and the western in the remote Cockpit Country. This butterfly depends on native trees like water mahoe and pumpkin wood, making it vulnerable to deforestation, invasive species, a

Western giant swallowtail (Heraclides rumiko) Distribution: Orsak (1977) listed this species only as "of possible Orange County Occurrence". He wrote: "A native of the southern states west to Texas and Arizona, it has been a California resident for only a little more than ten years. It is now commonly seen in the Imperial and San Joaquin Valleys 🦋 | Butterfly Farms