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Swallowtail

By grrlscientist on January 20, 2007.

Canadian Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio canadensis,
on rhubarb at the photographer's house in Eagle River, Alaska 22 June 2002.
Photo was taken using a Kodak DC-4800, some images with a lens adapter and a 7x or 10x (or both) lens, at full camera resolution (2160x1440).

Image: David Lee.

As long as you send images to me (and I hope it will be for forever), I shall continue to share them with my readership. My purpose for posting these images is to remind all of us of the grandeur of the natural world and that there is a world out there that is populated by millions of unique species. We are a part of this world whether we like it or not: we have a choice to either preserve these species or to destroy them in search of short-term monetary gains. But if we decide to destroy these other life forms, the least we can do is to know what we are destroying by learning that they exist. If you have a high-resolution digitized nature image (I prefer JPG format) that you'd like to share with your fellow readers, feel free to email it to me, along with information about the image and how you'd like it to be credited.

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By Diane in Ohio (not verified) on 20 Jan 2007 #permalink

The butterfly in this image appeared to have just hatched and had not finished opening its wings all the way. The tips of the front pair of wings are supposed to extend in front of its head. This was a neat individual to take pictures of, since it willingly climbed onto my finger and allowed me to take several macro shots of its head. While it was on my finger, another swallowtail landed nearby and I was able to hold this one beside it and get an image of both, to show how much variation there was between individuals. The second one had almost no blue and orange, and I assume it was the opposite sex. When I finally get around to updating my website again, I'll have a lot more images of this individual (including a close-up of a fly sitting on its wing), as well as some newer images from my new dSLR.