Battus philenor
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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 f
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Pipevine swallowtail
Female B. philenor fluttering at a flower in Tennessee
Pipevine swallowtail eggs with vertical stripes
Limenitis arthemis
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Limenitis arthemis, the red-spotted purple or white admiral, is a North American butterfly species in the cosmopolitan genus Limenitis. It has been studied for its evolution of mimicry, and for the se
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…of the swallowtail. As a result of the pipevine swallowtails' natural defense through acid sequestering, many other species of butterflies, like the red-spotted purple butterfly, female eastern tiger swallowtail and eastern black swallowtail butterflies, promothea silkmoth males and the spicebush swallowtail use the pipevine…
American White Admiral, Rainy River, Unorganized, ON, CA imported from i Naturalist photo 211830849
L. a. astyanax ventral view, Tennessee
Red spotted purple (L. a. arizonensis)
Pipevine swallowtail