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Flight Preparations - _TNY_6533

One of my favourites at the Haga Ocean butterfly house, a citrus swallowtail (Papilio demoleus), also known as the Christmas butterfly, chequered swallowtail and a bunch more names.

 

This one has never flown when I took this shot as it had recently crawled out of the chrysalis it had spent a couple of weeks inside and was waiting for the wings to harden/dry up enough for its first flight.

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Uploaded on March 21, 2024
Taken on January 10, 2024