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Close Up Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly
Artist
Gaby Ethington
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The Swallowtail butterflies are starting to show up now that Summer is fading and there are some wild flowers left in the fields. This big yellow butterfly was flying around the blue mist flowers and landing gently on the blossoms to look for nectar. Its legs take up almost the whole blossom bunch. Such a pretty insect.
The Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly is a favorite large butterfly (Papilionidae) of most people because of its brilliant colors. There are 600 species in the world but about 30 are in the United States -this one is in north Texas. Most have tails at their hind wings such as this one. They resemble a swallowtail bird and that is why they are named such. They feed on flowers and they do sip minerals and salts from mud or damp sand.
©gabyethington
This image was featured in the group WONDER OF WINGS in September 2021.
This image received an Honorable Mention in the Juried contest: Butterflies on Flowers – July 2022. Many thanks to Inez Ellen Titchenal.
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September 13th, 2021
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Green Lane, PA - United States
F/L. We once were too far north to have the Giant Swallowtail butterflies, but for the last three or four years they've been here. The numbers are small, of course, but their presence is a delight! What a lovely picture:>). Your work is beautiful.
Gaby Ethington replied:
Thanks, Carol! I don't see them often either so it is a thrill when I do. :)
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