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Black Beauty A very large butterfly that I love running into while hiking around in Florida looking for snakes. Black Swallowtail,Butterfly,Geotagged,Papilio polyxenes,Summer,United States,bug,insect,macro Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Black Beauty

A very large butterfly that I love running into while hiking around in Florida looking for snakes.

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  1. What beautiful accent colors it has, amazing! Posted 10 years ago

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The Black Swallowtail is a butterfly found throughout much of North America. It is the state butterfly of Oklahoma. An extremely similar-appearing species, "Papilio joanae", occurs in the Ozark Mountains region, but it appears to be closely related to "Papilio machaon", rather than "P. polyxenes".

Similar species: Moths And Butterflies
Species identified by TristanV
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By TristanV

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Uploaded Sep 9, 2015. Captured Sep 9, 2015 21:32 in Lake Henrietta Trail, Tallahassee, FL 32305, USA.
  • Canon EOS 70D
  • f/2.8
  • 1/332s
  • ISO500
  • 100mm