Wow! How elegant, so the more blue does show in all of the swallowtail females? Thats pretty cool.

Lovely! :)

She's beautiful Sherry! Thanks for sharing.

Rhonda

Congrats, congrats! She is lovely, Sherry. Great photo ... I can see her colors and markings so well.

Mary

Thanks, all!

I was looking through some old pictures, and I think this picture of a female palamedes shows female hindwing coloring better -

And this old picture of a male shows how he lacks the blue dots, just has the 2 large blue ones near his body, and in the places where the females have blue dots beyond that, he has black upside down 'V' marks instead -

A male spicebush swallowtail emerged, and he wanted to leave while the sun was still shining. I took the cage outside, and he left near the garden -

Sherry