Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
The Tiger Swallowtail butterfly or Papilio glaucas is a strong butterfly flier with distinctive yellow and black striped markings that is on its wings and body and it's some females are brown or black, mimicking the poisonous pipevine swallowtail. This relatively common butterfly has a wingspan of 3.5-6.5 inches or about 9-16.5 cm. Southern subspecies are larger than the northern ones.
These butterflies Tiger Swallowtail are called swallowtails because they have long "tails" on their hindwings which look a bit like the long, pointed tails of swallows (a type of bird)
