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A pipevine swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor) feeding on the flowers of lantana (Lantana sp.) in the landscaping of a Mormon church in Tucson, Arizona.
Botanical Gardens of Brasilia - DF, Brazil.
The Gold Rim Swallowtail (Battus polydamas) is a species of butterfly in the Papilionidae family, tribe Troidini.
Members of the tribe Troidini feed on poisonous pipevine plants and, as a result, they themselves are poisonous, unpalatable and taste very bad to predators.
Since birds avoid these butterflies, other swallowtail species mimic their coloration.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Tribe: Troidini
Genus: Battus Scopoli, 1777
Species: B. polydamas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies: B. p. polydamas
Scientific name: Battus polydamas polydamas
Synonyms: Papilio polydamas
The Polydamas swallowtail is one of only two United States swallowtails of the genus Battus. It is our only United States swallowtail without tails.
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This and the previous image are of the same type of butterfly. I am not sure if they are the exact same one or not because I took the images on different days. There are a few of these flitting about the yard between rains at this time.
Those incredible blue wings will glow brightly in the sun and are sure to catch the eye of anyone around. These butterflies are extremely fast and other than the sulfur, I find they are the most difficult to photograph.
They are poisonous like the monarchs so they don't really taste great to predators. That does not mean they are safe from predators, especially if a predator has not tasted one before.
The host plant I have for them is Aristolochia fimbriata. They will lay their eggs on the Dutchmans Pipevine as well.
I raised a few last year. In doing so, I found that the ones eating the Dutchmans pipevine have less survival rate in protective custody than the ones eating the Aristolochia. Some of the caterpillars eating the pipevine would be happily eating away then just die for no apparent reason. That is a personal observation not a scientific one. I have to wonder if the Dutchmans pipevine is a bit more toxic and the caterpillars just can't handle it.
If I have the opportunity to raise some this year, they will only get Aristolochia fimbrata to eat in protective custody, even if I find the eggs on the pipevine.
Have a fantastic day.
Treichville, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Le bazin africain à base de coton est teinté artisanalement pour devenir un tissu damassé caractérisé par la raideur et une éclatante brillance.
Ici, il est "battu", sans doute pour l'assouplir.
Huntington County, Indiana
A female Pipevine Swallowtail feeding on thistle at the JE Roush Fish and Wildlife Area.
• Polydamas Swallowtail / Gold-rim Swallowtail
• Borde de Oro / Polydamas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Papilionidae
Tribe:Troidini
Genus:Battus
Species:B. polydamas
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay
Pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor
Friends of the Regional Parks
Botanic Garden, Tilden
Berkeley, California
Jusqu'à la fin
Sans jamais se plaindre
Il s'est battu avec courage
Il est parti
C'était un homme bien
Monique
Naples Botanical Gardens
Southwest Florida
USA
The Pipevine Swallowtail or Blue Swallowtail (Battus philenor) is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. The butterflies are black with iridescent blue hind wings. They are found in many different habitats but are most commonly found in forests. The black or red caterpillars feed on Aristolochia species, making them poisonous as both larvae and adults, while the adults feed on the nectar of a variety of flowers.
The butterfly ranges from across USA to Mexico, Islas Marías and onto Guatemala and Costa Rica. It rarely strays into southern Ontario. In the United States, the butterfly is found in New England down to Florida west to Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Oregon.
Host plants for the caterpillars include the Pipevine (Aristolochia species), including Dutchman's pipe (A. californica), Virginia snake root (A. serpentaria) and others. Pipevines confer a poisonous quality to the larvae and resulting adults, much as the Monarch butterfly obtains protection by feeding on milkweed, or heliconiines by feeding on passion flowers.
Adults seek nectar from flowers, including thistles (Cirsium species), bergamot, lilac, viper's bugloss, common azaleas, phlox, teasel, azaleas, dame's rocket, lantana, petunias, verbenas, lupines, yellow star thistle, buckeye, and butterfly bush. – Wikipedia
I was enjoying a cold drink on a hot day in northern Costa Rica when a large, tailless swallowtail settled on an ornamental shrub right in front of me. It appeared to be freshly-emerged and still in perfect condition, perhaps pausing to rest for a moment on its maiden flight.
Altiplano Leste - Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
Members of the tribe Troidini feed on poisonous pipevine plants, typically of the genus Aristolochia, as larvae. As a result, they themselves are poisonous, unpalatable and taste very bad to predators. Since birds avoid these butterflies, other swallowtail species mimic their coloration.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Papilionidae
Subfamily: Papilioninae
Tribe: Troidini
Genus: Battus Scopoli, 1777
Species: B. crassus (Cramer, 1777)
Scientific name: Battus crassus
The best I've been able figure out is this is a Gold Rim Swallowtail. If anyone thinks I'm wrong please let me know. Source Wikpedia.
Les milans se comportent en vol un peu comme les vautours. Comme eux, ils cerclent longuement au-dessus de leur domaine en utilisant de la même façon les courants ascendants. Ils planent aisément en recourant rarement au vol battu quand le temps s'y prête. Ils utilisent leur queue étalée, très mobile, de façon unique dans le monde des rapaces. Ils la basculent d'un côté à l'autre suivant les mouvements de l'air pour garder l'équilibre du vol.
Black swallowtails are sexually dimorphic, but are identical with respect to colors and patterns on the ventral sides of the wings. Dorsally, males are mostly yellow, females are mostly blue. This is a female, on the fennel plant where she started out as an egg. The dorsal pattern is shown in the first comment.
Females mimic the poisonous pipevine swallowtail, Battus philenor
Good morning everyone and I hope you had a nice weekend. Featured today is one of my favorite butterflies, being the Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor). Seen here nectaring on Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis). A difficult setting to photograph this butterfly due to the sharp contrast between the bright white flower and the dark butterfly.
Just three pics of which the other two can be found in the comment section and my stream. But I'm sorry to say, once again I wasn't able to get any decent open wing pics.
As a side note, I've been waiting for this particular Buttonbush to flower assuming as in the past it would attract more than its fair share of butterflies. Particularly swallowtails such as Eastern Tigers, Spicebushes and Pipevines, as well as other butterfly species. But not this year.
When I first arrived where the bush was located, there wasn't a single butterfly nectaring on it. Then after a while along came the two Pipevines seen in these photos. That was it except for a lone Silver-spotted Skipper and a single Buckeye. Which confirms for me 2018 is proving to be the worst year for butterflies locally I can remember. And it's the end of June already :-(
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you have a truly great day and week.
Lacey
ISO800, aperture f/8, exposure .002 seconds (1/500) focal length 300mm
Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) on musk thistle. I'm sure I'll be posting several of our swallowtails species.
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Taken in La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Battus laodamas is native to the Neotropical ecozone. It is present in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
Battus laodamas has a wingspan reaching about 90 millimetres (3.5 in). It is a black or dark brown butterfly. The hind wings have no tails.
Wikipedia
The Springfield Conservation Nature Center's prairie sported this Pipevine swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor) enjoying some Starry rosinweed (Silphium asteriscus). The backlight provided almost translucent wings and lots of bokeh.
Good morning everyone and I hope you had a nice weekend. Featured today are two pics of a pristine Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor). Like the title states, it's near perfection as far as a flawless specimen. Plus I couldn't have asked for better light under a slightly overcast sky.
While always fussy when it comes to photographing butterflies as far as being in decent condition with no missing pieces or heavy signs of wear & tear, this one exceeded my own criteria. No doubt it's newly emerged and the nicest Pipevine I've ever photographed. Even when viewed large it's impossible to find anything wrong with it.
The Pipevine is right up there as one of my favorite butterflies and it's easy to see why in these two photos. Of which the second, being an open wing pic, can be found in the comment section and my stream.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you have a truly nice day and week.
Lacey
ISO800, aperture f/8, exposure .003 seconds (1/320) focal length 300mm
Aux lecteurs avertis...
Je vais te relater lecteur, la fleur du mal,
L’histoire d’ une vile femme acariâtre,
Que mon désespoir a battu comme plâtre,
Mon âme est devenue féroce animal.
Avant j’étais le diable qui brûlait tes nuits,
Puis ta faiblesse t’as menée dans un autre lit,
Où tu a goûté le sceptre d’un autre dieu,
Catin comment peux-tu faire acte aussi odieux.
Avant peu, tu ne seras plus de ce monde,
Ton corps d’hier ardant est un triste gisant,
Tes yeux ainsi que ton cœur sont agonisants,
Je me flatte de ta mort, muse immonde.
Tout notre amour passé nourrissait mon âme,
Maintenant que ton être froid et infâme,
Repose tel un ange sépulcral sur le planché,
Je vais me délecter de tes chairs, te dépecer.
Je veux qu’il ne reste plus aucune trace,
De ta charogne, je vais me faire un festin,
Près de ton antre de nos ébats libertins,
Mes dents creusent un chemin, je suis vorace.
Regarde le monstre, dans ton regard éteint,
Que tu as éveillé dans tes adultères,
Corneille, il s’envole comme toi, ton dédain,
Tu reposes en moi, loin de paix en terre.
Michaël Overberg
A Pipevine swallowtail butterfly (Battus philenor) gathering nectar from a Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) blossom.
• Polydamas Swallowtail / Gold-rim Swallowtail
• Borde de Oro / Polydamas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Papilionidae
Tribe:Troidini
Genus:Battus
Species:B. polydamas
Salinas, Canelones, Uruguay
Elle fait partie des Anatidés qui sont des oiseaux de taille moyenne à grande, occupant tous les continents, excepté l'Antarctique. La famille est forte de quelque 165 espèces.Ils sont très liés à l'eau, majoritairement aux eaux douces. Leurs pattes courtes sont palmées, ce qui constitue une adaptation à la nage. Leur ailes, assez courtes et étroites pour leur poids, engendrent un vol battu rapide et énergique, autorisé par une forte musculature pectorale. Le long cou est tendu au vol. La forte densité corporelle facilite la plongée chez les espèces recherchant leur nourriture dans l'eau.
Les femelles reproductrices arrachent leur duvet ventral pour en garnir leur nid, sommaire par ailleurs. Le but est double, dégarnir la plaque incubatrice pour l'incubation et fournir un réceptacle anti-déperdition de chaleur pour la couvée quand la femelle s'absente.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gis%C3%A8le_Halimi
Marie-Claire Chevalier est morte.
Ce nom ne vous dira probablement pas grand chose. Elle est pourtant à l'origine d'une des plus grandes lois féministes, au sens noble du terme, du XXe siècle.
Marie-Claire fut violée à l'âge de 16 ans. De ce viol, elle tombe enceinte et décide de se faire avorter. Cet acte étant illégal en France à l'époque, elle est dénoncée par son violeur (quitte à être un étron, autant aller jusqu'au bout du concept).
Aux antipodes de ce personnage, la fantastique Gisèle Halimi, avocate de profession, qui défendit Marie-Claire lors d'un procès retentissant en 1972. Le procès de Bobigny. L'effet médiatique est monstrueux, Marie-Claire est acquittée, et la loi Veil autorisant l'IVG sera adoptée le 17 janvier 1975. Libérant ainsi Marie-Claire et des milliers de femmes du passé, du présent, et à venir.
Presque 47 ans jour pour jour après le vote de cette loi, Marie-Claire est morte. Et est allée rejoindre Gisèle et Simone.
Merci Mesdames. Via @Audrey Tordelli
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