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# 10685

Black Swallowtail
(Papilio polyxenes)

Family: Papilionidae
Sub Family: Papilioninae

Here is a pair of mated Black Swallowtails on a stalk of Bronze Fennel its host plant. The female on top had just emerged and this male mated with her before she could fly.This is a very suburban species and is adaptive to urban environments and is very widespread.

Hosts: Fennel, Parsley, Carrot and other umbellifera species.

Photo taken on 8/25/01 at my garden in Orange County, NC

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