Thanks to all for sharing the unique butterflies of Northern Sulawesi. Did any of you have the chance to see the tailed male Papilio memnon? I was in Manado for a holiday a couple of years back and visited the Tangkoko Batuangus Natural Reserve to see the Tarsier. At the park entrance, I saw a male (tailed) and then a female Papilio memnon. In the short few minutes while waiting for the guide ranger, I saw the female laying eggs on a citrus tree (looks like pomelo). One of the eggs was low enough for me to pick and I brought it back. It hatched and I fed it with pomelo leaves but unfortunately, it perished when it reached the 4th/5th instar.
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