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Papilio demoleus
Large semi-urban yard/garden adjacent to a patch of disturbed remnant forest.
Nearly every afternoon this species alights on clumps of planted vertiver grass (Chrysopogon zizanioides) in our yard. Today they were favoring (non-blooming) irises. This individual took flight just as I photographed it. One of four species of previously alien Lepidoptera recorded in Papua (the Indonesian part of New Guinea) according to the Papua Insects Foundation.
Spotted on Jul 29, 2011
Submitted on Jul 29, 2011
