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Common Yellow Swallowtail
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- Had been to my brother's place "Hartford" in Connecticut. Beautiful place to visit in spring and summer season. Lot of green trees and trails to enjoy.
- Took this snap while walking along a trail, the butterfuly was mudpudelling in the warm afternoon.
[courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_Swallowtail]
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Tribe: Papilionini
Genus: Papilio
Species: P. machaon
This striking butterfly is yellow with black wing and vein markings and a wingspan of 8 to 10 cm. The hind wings of both sexes have a pair of protruding tails which give the butterfly its common name. Just below each tail is a red eye spot. |
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- siggi
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(1936) - [2008-07-02 12:22]
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Hello Ashok,
Great shot,very clear photo full of colours and light.Bravo.
Regards Siggi
Hi Ashok,
nice, lively, sunny picture of this impressingly beautiful swallowtail. By the way: it is not Papilio machaon, the "Common Yellow Swallowtail", that you captured here so well drinking water at the river, but the considerably larger
"Eastern Swallowtail" Papilio glaucus.
With thanks, and best regards,
Peter
P.S.: Some useful links for identification:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_glaucus
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Eastern_Tiger_Swallowtail_Papilio_glaucus_2000px.jpg
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