#blue swallowtail

The Pipevine Swallowtail is a Beautiful Spring Butterfly features one of Florida’s prettiest butterflies. It also shares some basic facts about them including range, preferred foods, and behavior.

Nectaring Pipevine Swallowtail One of our prettiest butterflies, in my opinion, is the pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor). I just love the vibrant blue bodies and hind wings of the males. The females are quite attractive, too, but are a little more muted in their coloration. They tend to be one of the first butterflies to emerge in the spring, and they will continue to fly throughout most of…

Pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor)

Usually while I’m having my cup of morning coffee, I am thinking about what I’d like to write about for the day. Because I’ve been contemplating starting this blog up again for a very long time, I have a lot of draft versions of blogs I’ve begun but not finished. So this morning without really thinking a great deal, I remembered a piece I wrote long ago entitled, “Metamorphosis”. I thought…