Yellow Butterfly on Purple is a photograph by Phyllis Taylor which was uploaded on November 18th, 2013.
Yellow Butterfly on Purple
I found this beauty in my back yard. It is a yellow and black swallowtail butterfly and it was feasting on one of the blooms of my butterfly bush. ... more
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Yellow Butterfly on Purple
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Phyllis Taylor
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I found this beauty in my back yard. It is a yellow and black swallowtail butterfly and it was feasting on one of the blooms of my butterfly bush.
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus Ornithoptera.
The forked appearance of the swallowtails' hind wings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name swallowtail.
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