Our colorfully-winged neighbors | Sequim Gazette
On soft, silent wings of black and yellow, Papilio rutulus — known also as the Western Tiger Swallowtail — float into our lives in late spring and early summer. Drinking nectar, fluttering into the trees, dancing in a spiral with others of their kind and encountering cars, they sometimes pause long enough for photographs that show the blue and orange on their lower wings and the tatters that speak to their short wild lives in adult form.
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