One of the ‘girls’ by rhoing

One of the ‘girls’

This is another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (at least I’m pretty sure!), but this is the “dark-morph” female. From BugGuide: the dark-morph “occurs in females through much of range, especially in southern states. The stripes are still faintly visible from some angles.

» ID’ed as Papilio glaucus or “Eastern Tiger Swallowtail”: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ]
» Species pages: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ] [ UK Butterflies (a solitary 1932 observation) ]
» Additional photo in the submissions should aid in ID’ing: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ]

Looking back
  1 year ago: “Pandemic Puzzle #12”
 2 years ago: “Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, dorsal view”
 3 years ago: “Why I’m here”
 4 years ago: “Common Buckeye”
 5 years ago: “New-to-me butterfly: Acmon Blue [filler #15]”
 6 years ago: “Blower motor resistor”
 7 years ago: “Green June Beetle”
 8 years ago: “Flowers-‘squared’”
 9 years ago: “Two-fer: Female ‘Macrocentrid’ on cone flower”
10 years ago: “What sort of person am I?”

[ IMG_2646S95x70tm :: 60mm ]
So pretty!
November 17th, 2021  
Lovely focus!
November 18th, 2021  
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