Canadian Tiger Swallowtail ... Papilio canadensis

Today, while on the way home from where I uploaded last night's photo, I pulled over and parked in a tiny pull off area near the side of the road for a short while. There are two adult morphs of the Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly ... one is yellow and the other black. The yellow which you see above is kind of rare here in this province, but it has been seen in western Newfoundland. The black morph is rarer still. Well, first the black morph appeared and stayed for a short while and I got a few shots! Then, this one, the yellow morph, appeared and stayed even longer! Both allowed me to get very close.

 

Now, they are not on some pretty flower, but in a mud puddle ... or, to be more precise ... on the damp periphery of that mud puddle. Do you know why? Stay tuned. :-)

Done