Spicebush Swallowtail [Filler]

Clare is out-of-town for a week, so I am busy working on a list of chores, hence a bunch of fillers the last several days. She returns tomorrow from a “friend-versary” trip with two girlfriends she met in high school freshman honors English “a couple years” ago next month.

» Confirmed as Papilio troilus or “Spicebush Swallowtail”: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ]
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Looking back
  1 year ago: “Diagnostic only!”
 2 years ago: “Lycoris squamigera”
 3 years ago: “Two credit cards… [Travel day]”
 4 years ago: No post
 5 years ago: “Guarding the soffit”
 6 years ago: “Ripples”
 7 years ago: “Guacamole!”
 8 years ago: “Leaf-footed bug”
 9 years ago: “Summer Azure”
10 years ago: “Painted Lady (corrected)”
11 years ago: “It's more fun looking out the window with you.”

[ IMG_3562S12x9B20C15tm :: 60mm ]

[Mags]

Outstanding!

[Danette Thompson]

Beautiful butterfly. How fun for your wife!

[Jane Pittenger]

So sharp and detailed