Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Not a bad shot for a phone camera. Too bad this one is missing one of its “tails.”

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* A single specimen was captured by a boy at Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland in late September (or early October) 1932 and is believed to have been accidentally imported from North America.

Looking back
  1 year ago: “Macro Tiger”
 2 years ago: “Perfect lake level!”
 3 years ago: “Lantana camara: Unopened flowers”
 4 years ago: “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wyoming Valley School”
 5 years ago: “Stink bug”
 6 years ago: “Black-and-Yellow Argiope”
 7 years ago: “American Pokeweed / Virginia Pokeweed”
 8 years ago: “Pearl Crescent”
 9 years ago: “The long cast comes off (at long last)!”
10 years ago: “Hey, there’s a master gardener next door!”
11 years ago: “August abstract #2”

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[Mags]

Wonderful capture! Love the powdery details.

[Esther Rosenberg]

super shot, that is life....but they manage well with one tail missing

[GaryW]

Stunning!