A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife
Project Noah Nature School
Papilio polyxenes asterias
They have a wingspan of 8 to 11 cm. This is a female black swallowtail, so near the edge of the wings it has yellow spots. The hindwing of the female has a light blue band.
They are found through out North America. In this case, found in Tampa, FL in about 80 degree weather.
Nadine R. , Edited by Isabel F.
Hi Ablock, you have a beautiful female black swallowtail butterfly here. You can now update the common name & google to scientific name so you can complete this too.
In future when you don't know the species please can you tick the "help me to ID this" box so that we can identify it for you.
Spotted on Apr 10, 2012
Submitted on Apr 11, 2012
