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Eastern Giant swallowtail

Papilio cresphontes

Habitat:

spotted on sunflowers in front yard

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11 Comments

auntnance123
auntnance123 11 years ago

That it was, Martin. The day before yesterday I saw another pair in the same frantic dance on a friend's jatropha bush (unfortunately they were backlit badly and I didn't get any pics--it would have been great with the background of red flower

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

This is an amazing series and must have been a joy to observe them. The female has a larger abdomen. Notice her feeding (pic #1 and 3) and rolling up her proboscis in pic #2

auntnance123
auntnance123 11 years ago

Thank you Everyone! This fellow was nothing if not presistent. I was almost happy she led him on a mad chase down the street--man, my arms were tired.

Pino
Pino 11 years ago

Beautiful series:) thank you

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

great action series!

LeahFerneReed
LeahFerneReed 11 years ago

Great shots....very dynamic images <3

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Beautiful series :)

LeanneGardner
LeanneGardner 11 years ago

Wow! What fantastic pictures of a very beautiful butterfly.

Dilek Cifci
Dilek Cifci 11 years ago

Incredible beautiful

rutasandinas
rutasandinas 11 years ago

Sensacional secuencias

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 11 years ago

What a series! Very nice!

auntnance123
Spotted by
auntnance123

Cocoa, Florida, United States

Spotted on Apr 28, 2012
Submitted on Apr 28, 2012

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