Swallowtail Butterfly
by Bruce Bley
Title
Swallowtail Butterfly
Artist
Bruce Bley
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae. Swallowtails have a number of distinctive features; for example, the papilionid caterpillar bears a repugnatorial organ called the osmeterium on its prothorax. The osmeterium normally remains hidden, but when threatened, the larva turns it outward through a transverse dorsal groove by inflating it with fluid.
The forked appearance of the swallowtails' hind wings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, gave rise to the common name swallowtail. As for its formal name, Linnaeus chose Papilio for the type genus, as Papilio is Latin for 'butterfly'. For the specific epithets of the genus, Linnaeus applied the names of Greek heroes to the swallowtails.
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September 5th, 2015
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Comments (23)
Alana Thrower
Beautiful Swallowtail capture! Love the details! l/f/g+
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you for the kind and gracious comment, Alana and thank you for the promotion.
Robyn King
Congratulations your beautiful work is being featured in The World We See Group :-)
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you for the feature in the group "The World We See", Robyn. I sincerely appreciate it.
Emmy Vickers
Stunning capture Bruce! Butterflies are sometimes hard to capture because they are constantly moving. This one is a beauty! Nice presentation. L.
Bruce Bley
Bob and Nadine, I want to thank you again for the feature in the group "Artist News". I sincerely appreciate the honor.
Bruce Bley
Denis, I am very grateful for the feature in the group "Photography the Fine Art". Thank you so much for the honor.
Anita Faye
Sheer glory in butterfly beauty Bruce! Featured on Groovy Butterflies!
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you for the feature and comment in the group "Groovy Butterflies, Anita. I sincerely appreciate it.
Ruth Housley
Great capture of the beautiful butterfly and love to capture butterfly too!! L/F Ruth
Bruce Bley replied:
Thank you for the kind comment, Ruth. It looks like we both have something in common by taking photographs of butterflies. Thank you for the visit and L.
Bruce Bley
Naomi, I want to thank you for the feature in the group "Waiting Room Art". I sincerely appreciate the honor and your support.
Bruce Bley
Jean, I sincerely appreciate the feature in the group "Greeting Cards for All Occasions". Thank you so much.
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Bruce Bley replied:
John, I am very grateful for the feature in the group "Images That Excite You", Thank you for the honor.
Bruce Bley
Doug, Thank you so much for the feature in the group "Macro Marvels". I truly appreciate it.
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