Swallowtail Butterfly
by Robert Bales
Title
Swallowtail Butterfly
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Robert Bales
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Photograph - Photo
Description
I was taking so flower photos with my macro lens and this one fly be me so I chased it around the yard in Yuma, Arizona. It was different trying to get something with the macro lens.
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species.[1] 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.[2]
Swallowtails have a number of distinctive features; for example, the Papilionid caterpillar bears a repugnatorial organ called the osmeterium on its prothorax. The osmeterium normally remains hidden, but when threatened, the larva turns it outward through a transverse dorsal groove by inflating it with blood.
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April 10th, 2014
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