Spicebush Swallowtail … Maybe

Posted on by David

I think this is a female spicebush swallowtail but I’m really not sure if it’s either of those. The reason for my uncertainty is the color. These are all pretty brown and all the descriptions I read say they are black and all the pictures on various sites show black too. But if I enter brown spicebush swallow I do get some brown ones in Google images but nothing exactly like this. So here are a bunch of pictures of brownish, blackish, swallowtail butterflies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey! How did these skippers get in here? Oh yeah, there’re everywhere.

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog.

David

All photos taken with a Nikon D7100 and a Sigma 105mm macro lens.

9 thoughts on “Spicebush Swallowtail … Maybe”

    • Thanks Maverick! I think that is it. A dark, female, eastern tiger swallowtail. Even though I had posted something about the dark female, ETS earlier this year I had forgotten about them. I looked at your link which prompted me to revisited eastern tiger swallow tails sites and I’m pretty sure that’s it.

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