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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (dark form)
This is an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Most Eastern Tiger Swallowtails are yellow with black tiger stripes like this one here: www.flickr.com/photos/texaseagle/3283987246/
But the one above is a female dark form Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. In the dark morph, most of the yellow areas are replaced with a dark gray to a black. A shadow of the "tiger stripes" can still be seen on the dark females.
Photo taken at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens on May 24, 2010.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (dark form)
This is an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Most Eastern Tiger Swallowtails are yellow with black tiger stripes like this one here: www.flickr.com/photos/texaseagle/3283987246/
But the one above is a female dark form Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. In the dark morph, most of the yellow areas are replaced with a dark gray to a black. A shadow of the "tiger stripes" can still be seen on the dark females.
Photo taken at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens on May 24, 2010.