One of my favorite butterflies that visit the garden some summers is the black swallowtail. I captured this photo while the butterfly was hanging out on one of my purple coneflowers. They seem to be attracted to these flowers. I discovered one year that caterpillars of the black swallowtail butterfly love parsley as they ate all my parsley plants one year. However, it was worth it to see the beautiful butterflies that my parsley plants helped produce.
As you can see the black swallowtail is mostly black with yellow and blue trim s around the wings. Both the male and the females have similar tones but the male has more yellow tones than blue tones. Both males and females have that distinctive orange eyespots on the back of their wings. They are common in parts of Canada.
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Do you see black swallowtail butterflies in your area?
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Yes
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No
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Beautiful butterfly and nice post
Thanks for reading and commenting
Saw black swallowtail butterflies only two times in my life, they are rare in my area.
Different types of butterflies come by each year. The swallowtail is also scarce here
Lovely picture. I see a lot of butterflies in my garden but I don’t know their names lol
Every time I see a different one I take a photo and look it up online otherwise I wouldn’t know either.
Super shot. The butterfly is beautiful. I occasionally see them in our land.
Thank you for the kind words
What a beauty! Here we only have the yellow swallowtail, very beautiful, but this one looks even better ?.
I don’t think I have seen the yellow swallowtail or maybe I did but didn’t know the name.
His size and patterns are probably identical, but instead of black, he has yellow. One of my favourite butterflies ?.
Thank you. They are a real nice addition to the garden
It’s a lovely butterfly. Perhaps I have seen one already but I don’t remember.
This one was from last summer. I do hope they return this year.
Yes I hope to see them again this year
Yes indeed, a favorite of mine too. They will visit in a few weeks.
I do hope to see them again this year and I plan to plant some parsley just for them
Good luck, I saw a yellow one yesterday.