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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Papilio glaucus

Photo by dita_gruze
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

It was bigger than my palm!

Species ID Suggestions

Old world Swallowtail Butterfly

Papilio machaon
BrianaReichart
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Eastern tiger swallowtail

Papilio glaucus

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KarenL
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Comments (3)
KarenL
This is actually an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail not an Old World Swallowtail! If you check out the wiki links you will be able to see the difference!
cgzurawa
I also saw one on my front porch! It was in mid July. I live in Northeast PA. My brother called it a Luna Moth but it looked just like this. Wish I had a picture.
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PublishedJune 1, 2011

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