Papilio polyxenes female on Butterfly Milkweed. How apropos.
Here’s a male… or maybe two of them. ( Lots of flittering about when it comes to these things.)
And two of the caterpillars.
Black Swallowtails
Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.
As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”
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