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Giant swallowtail BF
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Giant swallowtail BF

by John Tobias

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted August 8, 20182,997 views1 comments
I did not realize there were giant swallowtail butterflies until I photographed this one in my friends backyard.  I noticed unlike other butterflies in the area this one never stopped flapping its wings.

Canon 7D Mark II
Sigma 150mm F-2.8 macro
1/1600 @ f-3.5 ISO 400

Comments

1 comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 11, 2018 at 11:02 AM
It's always fun to photograph a new and surprising subject.  We used to see these in the annual butterfly count, but the fields where they were found got turned into soccer fields about 10 years ago.
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