The Other Side of a Zebra Swallowtail

Rust-colored antennae. Pale green legs. Bright red spots. Greenish-white and black stripes. Quite a colorful species.
» My more-or-less scientific field guide uses “striking” to describe the Zebra Swallowtail.
» Remark at BugGuide: “This spectacular butterfly is the only regularly-occurring North American representative of the Neotropical genus Eurytides, or Kite Swallowtails.”

Species pages: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ] [ Not present in UK ]
Range maps: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ]

Looking back
1 year ago: “Fourth of July concert 2019” [video]
2 years ago: “Fourth of July prep”
3 years ago: “American Lady” [butterfly species]
4 years ago: “Happy Fourth of July!”
5 years ago: “A couple layers short …”
6 years ago: “Rowing on the Fourth of July [video]”
7 years ago: “Poor photo/Major success!”
8 years ago: “Got cicadas?” [Cicada Killer, species of wasp]
9 years ago: “Fourth of July”

[ IMG_0976S100x75Utm :: 214mm ]

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam Is this shot better?

[Mags]

It's gorgeous! The colors are amazing! I never see those butterflies around here.

[Esther Rosenberg]

what a beautiful butterfly

[GaryW]

Wonderful colors on the tail.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam You must be out west, outside their typical range, shown here, https://bugguide.net/node/view/3101#range

[Mags]

@rhoing No. In the midlands of South Carolina in Richland County. They could be here and I just haven't seen any.

[Thom Mitchell]

@marlboromaam With that location, you see a butterfly that's supposed to be in *my* area, but I have *never-ever* seen here: Gulf Fritillary. They are gorgeous, too.
http://365project.org/tags/gulf%20fritillary

** Correction ** Not in my area! If you look at the range maps, Illinois is strangely missing!