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Papilio palamedes
Mating butterflies: Female (left); Male (right)
These swallowtails were observed near orange azaleas in full bloom.
It is reported that the male often flies behind the female to disperse his
pheromones (Source; Rick Cech and Guy Tudor (2005) Butterflies of the East Coast.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. ISBN 0-691-09055-6
Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
11300 US Highway 98
Coastal Alabama
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Date/Time | 25-Mar-2015 14:31:17 |
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Model | NIKON D800 |
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Focal Length | 600 mm |
Exposure Time | 1/323 sec |
Aperture | f/9 |
ISO Equivalent | 200 |
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