Black Swallowtail Butterfly Dorsal View #2
by Karen Adams
Title
Black Swallowtail Butterfly Dorsal View #2
Artist
Karen Adams
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Prints - Photography
Description
This image is the dorsal view of a beautiful Black Swallowtail butterfly taken in Ohio in the summer of 2018. The scientific name for this butterfly is Papilio polyxenes. The name gives its obvious identifying feature that it is mostly black with the inner edge of the hindwing marked with a black spot centered in larger orange spot. The male has a yellow band near the edge of its wings, while the female has a row of yellow spots. The female also is marked with an iridescent blue band on the hindwing. This is a female Black Swallowtail.
The size can vary on these butterflies between a wing Span of 3 1/4 - 4 1/4 inches.
Caterpillars are hungry creatures. The Black Swallowtail caterpillar loves host plants such as the leaves of plants in the parsley family (Apiaceae) including Queen Anne's Lace, carrot, celery and dill. Sometimes plants in the citrus family (Rutaceae) are preferred.
Adults like nectar from flowers including red clover, milkweed, and thistles.
My home is in a suburb and we have a large back yard that borders a protected wetlands area, a perfect place to see many types of butterflies. Black Swallowtails like a variety of open areas including fields, suburbs, marshes, deserts, and roadsides. They can be found in most of the eastern U.S., north into Quebec, west into Saskatchewan, Colorado, southeastern California and as far south as northern South America.
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October 6th, 2018
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