单词 | orange dog |
释义 | > as lemmasorange dog orange dog n. U.S. (a) the larva of the giant swallowtail butterfly, Papilio cresphontes, which feeds on the foliage of orange and other citrus trees; (also) the butterfly itself; (b) (in full California orange dog) the larva or adult of the western swallowtail, P. zelicaon. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Papilionidae > genus Papilio > papilio cresphontes (orange-butterfly) > larva of orange dog1881 1881 Rep. Secretary U.S. Dept. Agric. 1880 247 Mr. A. T. Harvey, of..Sumter County, Florida, informs me that he has had many orange seedlings completely defoliated by these larvae—‘orange dogs’ as they call them in that part of the country. 1926 E. O. Essig Insects Western N. Amer. xxvii. 634 The western parsley caterpillar, Papilio zelicaon... Also known as..the California orange dog. 1951 A. B. Klotz Field Guide to Butterflies 173 The larvæ (‘Orange Dogs’) are sometimes injurious to citrus trees. 1993 R. H. Arnett Amer. Insects 535 H[eraclides] cresphontes (Cramer), Orange-Dog, Giant Swallowtail. < as lemmas |
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