Black Butterfly on Orange Wildflowers
by Janette Boyd
Title
Black Butterfly on Orange Wildflowers
Artist
Janette Boyd
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Photo of female dark morph tiger swallowtail on orange and yellow wildflowers near Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Featured in the following FAA Groups:
*The World We See
*Groovy Butterflies
Black Butterfly on Orange Wildflowers
A dark female Eastern TigeranSwallowtail mimics another butterfly called the Pipevine Swallowtail. Mimicry is when one animal looks just like another animal in order to gain safety or some other advantage. Pipevine Swallowtails eat a plant called Pipevine which makes them taste nasty to predators. Predators will learn to leave them alone. The dark female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail will also get left alone since it looks like a Pipevine Swallowtail, even though it is good to eat! Female tiger swallowtails will only have the dark form if a lot of Pipevine Swallowtails live in the same area. However, there will still be some light form females as well.
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July 14th, 2014
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Comments (5)
Nava Thompson
Janette---I love the colors and the garden/artsy scene---congrats on being among the winners in the WFS contest---lvf
Nikolyn McDonald
Great color. I've never seen this butterfly before - beautiful. Congratulations on the win in the Flower(s) with a Flying Animal on It contest at WFS this week.
Janette Boyd replied:
Thank you for your nice comments, Nikolyn! I am so happy to be selected in the contest at WFS! I think this is a blue morpho but the light made it look like a black butterfly. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
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