Yesterday morning we noticed this absolutely gorgeous butterfly gracefully visiting our lavender. We'd never seen anything like it - the black and white stripes went all of the way out to the edge of the wings instead of the normal black edging all of the way around the wings. Also the "tails" were quite long.
We watched it rapturously for minutes on end. It was so beautiful that Carter didn't even think about catching it. We tried to find what kind of butterfly it was and had no luck. So I sent a photo to the website www.whatbugisthat.com and they answered. This is a variation of a Zebra Swallowtail.
It's been back once more and this time Carter tried his hardest to catch it. Luckily it got away. It's just gorgeous.
2 comments:
OMG - we had the same type of butterfly in our yard too!! I took pics too b/c I absolutely couldn't believe that we had that in our yard. Maybe the butterfly show accidentally let some of these bad boys out!
That's EXACTLY what I thought!!!
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