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.
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David
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A delightful series of lovely images – I envy you your wildlife David 📷😍
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Thank you Eileen.
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Very nice captures
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Thanks Tom.
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Nice shots David. I have seen some brown Eastern Swallowtails. They’re on the 5th and 6th slide – https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Papilio-glaucus
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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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It looks like she’s also lost her left swallow! 🦋
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See it appears something got some tail.
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