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Tiger Swallowtail on Spring Beauty (130J)	Tiger Swallowtail on Milkweed (130L)	Tiger Swallowtail (DIN001)
Tiger Swallowtail (DIN079)	Species information from eNature.com: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail	Tiger Swallowtail (DIN080)
An interesting side-light on this butterfly is its scientific name.  "Glaucus" means bluish-gray in Latin.  Linnaeus, who established the scientific name, had a black form female which he used in naming the species based on her color.  Even though the majority of females and all males are the typical tiger-stripe form, the name had been established and the Tiger has always been, scientifically speaking, the Bluish-gray Swallowtail ever since.

Nature Photography and Wildlife Photography by Gerry Gantt, from Marsh, Field and Forest

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