Black Swallowtail Butterfly
by Robert Bales
Title
Black Swallowtail Butterfly
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Found this last Spring as it was migrating to the Northern States.
Black Swallowtails are a fairly common but very pretty butterfly with a wingspan of about a 2.5 to 4 inches wide. They are easy to attract to host plants to lay eggs, and the caterpillars are easy to raise also.
Black Swallowtail butterfly eggs are a very pale, almost white color. They are spherical (ball like) and the female will lay them on both the undersides and tops of the plant leaves. It takes around 3-5 days for the eggs to hatch. Longer if the weather is cooler. When the eggs are close to hatching they will turn to a darker color. The dark color is the actual caterpillar growing inside. The caterpillars chew their way out of the egg. After they hatch they eat what is left of the egg.
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January 21st, 2016
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Comments (27)
Marvin Blaine
This is another one of those Beyond Beautiful Robert! A Whole other level of Beauty! L/F!
Robert Bales replied:
Thanks, Marvin for the visit, nice comments and the LF!! I need to find some more!
Christopher James
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Anita Faye
Robert, happy to feature your beautiful work on Groovy Butterflies! https://fineartamerica.com/groups/groovy-butterflies.html
Miroslava Jurcik
That's a beautiful pattern on the butterfly and beautifully composed ! Gorgeous ! l/f/t
Robert Bales replied:
I also thought the same about the pattern and thanks for the nice comments and the LFT!!
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