Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Single Swallowtail

Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) female. Missing one of her “swallowtails,” perhaps lost to a bird.On Joe-Pye Weed (genus Eutrochium), that pollinator magnet.

mthew

Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge Park, butterflies, insects, invertebrates

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Flying Now | Backyard and Beyond

July 26, 2013 at 5:06 pm

[…] which I find impossible to identify in motion. That’s the point. Both the Spicebush and the Black Swallowtail (P. polyxenes) mimic the Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor), which evidently tastes disgusting after loading […]

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