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lejun | all galleries >> Butterflies and Moths >> Native American Butterflies >> Swallowtails (Papilonidae) >> Palamedes Swallowtail > Palamedes Swallowtails
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25-MAR-2015 Lejun

Palamedes Swallowtails

Copyright © Lewis Scharpf

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

Nikon D800 ,AF-S VR II NIKKOR 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED
1/320s f/9.0 at 600.0mm iso200 with Nikon 2.0X Teleconverter hide exif
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Date/Time25-Mar-2015 14:31:17
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Focal Length600 mm
Exposure Time1/323 sec
Aperturef/9
ISO Equivalent200
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