Home again to familiar butterflies

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus).

It’s interesting how close I can get with a cell phone camera to some butterflies and not close at all to others. Does it vary by species or by the individuals? I am trying to restrict myself to only zooming to 2× with the cell phone. The phone lens will go higher, but at what cost to focus? I suppose I could experiment…

» Don’t need the ID, but submitted to BugGuide as a data point for June this far south in Illinois.
» Species pages: [ BAMONA ] [ BugGuide ] [ UK Butterflies* ]

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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.

[ PXL_20240625_195006539_LE15tm :: cell phone ]

June 25 posts
  1 year ago: No post
 2 years ago: “Well, they didn’t all die!”
 3 years ago: “At the confluence [Filler]”
 4 years ago: “It’s hydrangea season in New England”
 5 years ago: “Compare the ‘Ladies’ (toggle between them)”
 6 years ago: “Crash after a crawl”
 7 years ago: “Eastern Amberwing”
 8 years ago: “Hangin’ out on the water (with a genetics exercise)”
 9 years ago: “Scrumdillyumptious, indeed!”
10 years ago: “Oh, the indignity!”
11 years ago: “First butterfly in our garden!” Wow! This was late!
12 years ago: “Snowberry Clearwing”
13 years ago: “At the flower show…”

[Mags]

Gorgeous!

[Corinne C]

What a fabulous picture!

[bkb in the city]

Great capture

[Kathy]

Nice focus and lovely patterns.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Beautifully captured fav!