Lydia and Tweets

A good place to look at butterflies to get ID's is

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm

You can look at species from all over the USA.

Click on 'Washington' on the map and then select 'Swallowtails' and look at the possibilities. If you scroll down under each species, you will find a county-by -ounty map that will exclude some possibilities. I agree the two species you mention are the most likely to be seen but don't exclude Anise Swallowtail from consideration. Pappilio rultulus, the Western Tiger Swallowtail is certainly the most frequent flyer right now. The foodplant is wild cherry and such -- there is a lot of it around here. The Pale Swallowtail is much more common east of the Cascades.

Bob Taylor
Bonney Lake, WA
taylorrt at comcast.net

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From: Lydia Bishop <gizathecat at verizon.net>

> 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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