I have answered my own question. It's a "Pale Swallowtailed Butterfly"
*/(Papilio eurymedon)/* It's been flitting from one rhody bloom to
another all afternoon!

Lydia,
Near Lake Stevens

Lydia Bishop wrote:
> Any butterfly experts in Tweeterland?
>
> I think I saw a swallow tailed butterfly. I remember them from when I
> was a little girl in Illinois where they would swarm the osage orange
> trees. This butterfly is yellow and has the tail, but do they exist
> up here? How common are they up here?
> Lydia,
> Near Lake Stevens, WA
>
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