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Western Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio rutulus

Photo by KarenSaxton
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Field Notes

Description:

Large yellow butterfly

Notes:

The Tigers around here light very rarely, so when my husband saw one on the marigolds in my kitchen garden, my husband snapped a handful of pictures through the glass

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