Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Blurry photo of ???, 1 by terryr

terryr wrote:
My eyes are really blurry from looking thru image after image that not only you've given me, but I have been at the Butterflies of North American and I clicked on IL. Going to my county wasn't much help, so I just did the whole state of IL. When I looked at the images they provide for the Spicebush swallowtail, it's not a good image at all. So, I went to google and did another search. The below image is a huge possibility. It was on the Eupatorium purpureum (I believe that's the right species of Eupatorium as I have several), so I'm wondering if possibly the tail just wasn't showing. The above photo was taken thru the window, since it flew away as I walked towards it. I do have 6 Lindera benzoin, so it is possible. I will keep my eyes out for it and make it my mission now to see if I can't get a better photo.