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Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly - Battus philenor - male
Copyright © 2008 Charles Wilder

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly - Battus philenor - Male
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
August 4, 2008
Found on Turks Cap Lily - Lilium superbum.
Contributed by Charles Wilder on 14 March, 2009 - 2:52pm

Pipevine Swallowtail
I was there at the same time you were last year and got the many photographs of the Pipevine Swallowtail in these flowers. They were everywhere. They were hard to photograph because I don't think they ever stopped moving. Great photo.
… Patrick Crone, 14 November, 2009 - 3:49pm

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