Eastern Tigerswallowtail, Male.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Beautiful. That is very like our European swallowtail except that ours has small blue and red markings on the bottom edge.
CeliaVL
Level 7
July 15, 2018
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One interesting fact is that there is a sex linked dark form, in which the female is all black with some iridescent blue on the hindwings.
Often times, you can see darker tiger stripes on these color morphs.
The males are the gene carriers and are always of standard colors.
This dark form is a mimic of the toxic Pipevine Swallowtail
