Friday, September 07, 2007

 
Black Swallowtail - Papilio polyxenes - female - this one (sighted September 3) was the first of this species I had seen in the Blue Mountain Wildlife garden. This sighting was so unexpected that when I saw this specimen I started explaining the markings of Spicebush Swallowtail to a nice lady named Kay who had stopped at the garden to take a few photos of her own, but then I looked more closely and saw my error. The double row of of orange spots on the underside of the hindwings with blue between looks rather like Spicebush Swallowtail (you can see one in the August 19 entry below) but the second row of white spots on the forewings of a Spicebush does not extend as far front and there is no third row.
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