CLOSED: Verification sought - Is this a Spicebush Swallowtail?

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TheHackster Columbus, GA(Zone 8a) Sep 11, 2010

I did my research and am pretty confident that this is a Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly.

Am I correct?

Hack

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 11, 2010

This also could be a black morph of the eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus - see http://tinyurl.com/2fcpm4u for an image. Compare carefully with an image of a spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus) at http://tinyurl.com/2e7lbvo

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helenchild Decatur, GA Sep 12, 2010

Here is a butterfly from my yard several days ago.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 12, 2010

helenchild's butterfly is a female black morph of the eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus - see http://tinyurl.com/2fvdrpt for a Florida example.

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helenchild Decatur, GA Sep 12, 2010

Thank you.
Would this be something different?
Helen

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Sep 12, 2010

This is a yellow morph of the eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. This is the color pattern that most people associate with this species.

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helenchild Decatur, GA Sep 12, 2010

Thank you. Now I know what I was looking at!!
Helen

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sjjantwin Wellington, OH Sep 14, 2010

I have really been into the butterflies this summer and it's difficult to tell the black morph and the spice bush apart. I have books and look online but when they flutter by so fast or fly away at my aproach it's difficult. Thanks suunto, again! I should of checked this Bugfiles on daves Garden out a long time ago.

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TheHackster Columbus, GA(Zone 8a) Sep 22, 2010

Thanks, all.

I am confident that mine is a black morph of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, not a Spicebush Swallowtail. In fact, this evening I saw a yellow morph of the ETS, but it didn't hang around long enough for me to get a pic.

Hack

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LEO88 Big Rapids, MI(Zone 4b) Sep 23, 2010

...some Native American Indian tribes referred to this full harvest moon as The Black Butterfly Moon...doubtful whether they differentiated between P.glaucus, or P.troilus..??

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