For dress the insect wore a dark-blue swallowtail coat with a yellow silk lining and a flower in the button-hole; a vest of white duck that stretched tightly across the wide body; knickerbockers of fawn-colored plush, fastened at the knees with gilt buckles; and, perched upon its small head, was jauntily set a tall silk hat.

A few of the stunning examples of butterflies include the Hedgerow Hairstreak, the Jutta Arctic, the Tiger Swallowtail, the Xami Hairstreak, and the Zerene Fritillary.

Translated, his message was this: In the Canadaway Creek Nature Sanctuary, a wildlife preserve that borders the creek over the last few hundred yards of its flow across the Lake Erie plain and into the lake, he'd found five giant swallowtail butterflies.

His favourite creature is the African papilio ophidicephalus, also known as the Emperor Swallowtail, which comes from Malawi and is black and yellow with red eye spots.

Washington, May 20 (ANI): A group of Japanese researchers has succeeded in building a fully functional replica model - an ornithopter - of a swallowtail butterfly, and they have filmed it flying.

Among the critically endangered insects were the Marinduque swallowtail (Menelaides luzviae) and the Leyte swallowtail (Chilasa osmana), both butterflies heavily collected for international trade.

Library staff members raise monarch, swallowtail, and painted lady butterflies and visitors enjoy seeing the transformation occur.

What sort of creature is a swallowtail? A Abird B Afly C A butterfly D A mammal 14.

Dill is the favorite host plant of black swallowtail caterpillars.

An octagonal lighthouse built in 1860, Swallowtail, in North Head, is a great place to spot tail flukes and acrobatic seals.

tears An octagonal lighthouse built in 1860, Swallowtail, in North Head, is a great place to spot tail flukes and acrobatic seals.