This poor Eastern Tiger Swallowtail I snapped in Eastern Kentucky has seen better days. Here, she—females have that band of blue on the hind wings—rests on a bloom of Queen Anne’s Lace along the neighbor’s barbed wire fence line.
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What a pretty butterfly.
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Thanks, ann. She is beautiful, despite her disfigurement. :o(
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I think those tails are a bit bright so a little tempting for the birds. I captured one in Greece with the tail missing. However, they are still an amazing butterfly, we only get swallowtails in a very small area of the UK, down in the South East so I have only ever seen them on visits to other countries!
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Hi Chrissy and so sorry to reply so late…holy cow. Awww, so you think birds might’ve done this? Oh my. At the time I took this, I also saw a lot of black swallowtails (I think), but didn’t succeed in photographing them. Too fast for me!
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