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Here is another shot of a tiger swallowtail feeding on my Mexican sunflowers. They are a rare sight around here. The photo was taken in July 2022, with my trusty Olympus digital camera. Enjoy and stay well.
Backlighting shows the overlap of the forewings and hind wings. These butterflies were competing with lots of bumblebees and wasps for nectar. There were so many bees I didn't want to get too close.
This another shot from my big butterfly shoot on Long Island last summer. For about a week, I photographed mainly butterflies and came home with some 3000 shots. :) As I recall, the conditions were rather breezy when I took this, so I used a fast shutter speed. Although the quality is far from perfect, I rather like the composition and color. The shot was taken in August 2014, with my trusty Olympus digital camera. Enjoy.
P.S. Still busy in the garden.
This beautiful Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly takes a break from being on the wing, to take in some sweet treats that the clover flower has to offer.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Richwood, WI.
Summer 2014
Today's Tiger swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) is not faded. The yard's Purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) tempted this one to flit around for quite some time. The mid-day sun made some parts of the wing translucent. The temperatures hit 90 F (32 C) and the summer heat dome moves through a week before the solstice.
These butterflies don't usually live more than a year. They often have two generations a year, with some adults emerging in the Spring, and then their offspring emerging as adults in Fall. This second generation only lives for a few months.
I found this butterfly on the backroads of southern Alabama. The road we were on had hundreds of blooming purple thistles. It was candyland for butterflies.
I'm blessed with some Swallowtails this year which seem to especially love the Lobelia flower. So I have been practicing in-flight shots as well as trying to get them drinking. Here are a couple of them drinking.
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This photo is actually rotated 90 degrees to the left. the flower stem was horizontal. The shadows on the plant verify that.
This female tiger swallowtail butterfly is brand new. What I mean is I believe it had just left the cocoon, pumped up her wings and is now drying off. She was very cooperative and let me take all the pictures I wanted. I wish all animals were like that.
A shot from Blackhawk State Park of a beautiful Swallowtail in the prairie flowers. The incoming bee was an unexpected addition!
The butterfly was back lit while sitting on a thistle flower. Sunlight through its wings was beautiful!
All the plants that the butterflies love are blooming like mad now, and I'm glad to see these pretty visitors starting to show up in my garden.......I'm mean, after all.......I've planted all this stuff JUST for them, the least they can do is come and enjoy it!!!.
Now.....if only the little hummingbirds would show up! I'm sure they're around and I've just missed them. The trumpet vine and the bee balm should be beckoning to them.