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The Wildlife Thread

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Went to Portugal for the day on Monday this week and photographed this absolutely stunning Swallowtail butterfly. Never seen one before.

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Went to Portugal for the day on Monday this week and photographed this absolutely stunning Swallowtail butterfly. Never seen one before.

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We're lucky enough to see a lot of these in the US Southeast, The most striking is the Zebra Swallowtail. Their primary (mabye only?) host plant is the Paw Paw, a slightly odd tropical-ish fruit tree that produces a mango/banana type of fruit. I think it's the only tropical fruit tree native to the US. We have a lot of them growing in the woodland edge at the bottom of our garden, so we're lucky enough to see a lot of these chaps flying around.




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