Pipevine swallowtail

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Show some love! The California Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor hirsuta) is a native and endemic butterfly to California. A beautiful butterfly with tropical origins, California Pipevine Swallowtails only naturally use native California Pipevine (Aristolochia californica) as its larval host plant. It is locally rare in some parts of its range (the city and county of San Francisco) and formerly extirpated in Santa Cruz county. Though a strong flier, likely capable of covering some…

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Battus philenor, the pipevine swallowtail or blue swallowtail, is a swallowtail butterfly found in North America and Central America. This butterfly is black with iridescent-blue hindwings. They are found in many different habitats, but are most commonly found in forests. Caterpillars are often black or red, and feed on compatible plants of the genus Aristolochia. They are known for sequestering acids from the plants they feed on in order to defend themselves fr (Source: Wikipedia, 'Battus…

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...and best viewed large. Good morning and Happy Butterfly Monday to everyone. Just a single photo of what I consider to be one of our most beautiful butterflies, being the Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor). Seen here on either Smooth Phlox (Phlox glaberrima) or Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata), I'm not sure which as both grow wild here along many country roadsides. As for this photo, it's one of two Pipevine Swallowtails I spotted feeding, but as Pipevines usually do, they were…

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