Caterpillar in Algeria
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Caterpillar in Algeria

A reader in Algiers, Algeria wrote to us recently to ask about a “worm” he found in his garden. The worm is in fact a caterpillar, which may be one of the species of swallowtail butterfly caterpillar, which make up the family Papilionidae. With these two sentences, we’ve already supplied our reader with everything he wanted to know (and all we can really give him), but we’ll delve a little bit further into the subject to round out our answer, and also explain our rationale a bit more.