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Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterfly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_polyxenes

Description:

Observed these two males at the beach.



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1 Comment

KarenL
KarenL a year ago

Most probably "mud puddling" for minerals! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud-puddlin...
Please can you remove the wiki reference from the scientific name box & replace with the scientific name as this is the info used by the system to link this to other spottings of the same species. Thanks!

Ontario, Canada

Lat: 42.29, Long: -82.71

Spotted on Aug 25, 2011
Submitted on Feb 8, 2012

Reference

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