Very colorful butterfly, the metallic blue really stands out when the sun hits it just right. Hard to get a good picture as its wings are always moving. It doesn’t stay in one place long.
Pipevine Swallowtail
Author: Larry Force
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Tiger Swallowtail #3
Some of the female Tiger Swallowtails are black and mimic the Pipevine Swallowtail, which retains some of the poisonous properties of its host plant, Aristolochia(pipevine) and is most unplatable to its bird and lizard enemies. This helps to protect them.
A little more nature, Tiger Swallowtail #2
A little more nature, Tiger Swallowtail
As Daffnet is rather slow right now, I went out and took a few more native butterfly pictures, For your enjoyment. All of these are at my home in Southaven, Mississippi. A little south of Memphis, Tennessee. Most of these…
A little more nature
This is a photo of the larva of the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly, on it’s host plant, the Paw-Paw taken a couple of days ago. Sorry I don’t have a photo of the adult. Tiger Swallowtails, Spice Bush Swallowtails and Pipe…
not daffodils, for the nature lovers among us
The larva and adult of the Giant Swallowtail Butterfly, the largest North American butterfly. The larva is on a small plant of Ptelea Trifoliata. The host plants of the GS are plants in the citrus family, but as citrus is not…