Today We Were Visited by a Butterfly I Have Never Seen in Panama Before.
Black Swallowtail Papilio Polyxenes Fabricius is a butterfly usually found North of us and is quite well known in North America. On the map they have been spotted as far South as Nicaragua. No wonder I was caught off guard when I saw it. We are quite a distance out of this butterflies normal range.
The butterfly spent about 20 minutes enjoying our bougainvillea. You should have seen me chasing the butterfly around the yard. My neighbors must of thought I looked ridiculous. After a few minutes I think it realized I was no threat and let me get in close.
This One Was a Male.
The male has a yellow band near edge of wings; female has row of yellow spots. Female hindwing with iridescent blue band. This is what a female would look like.
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Very nice pictures @hilarski ! Great shot of the butterfly in flight. I like the bougainvillea too
Whoaaa!!! You have a great knowledge about butterflies friend, it was a pretty good post
I love my insects!
Regards friend!!!
Nice post and beautiful butterfly. We wanted the picture your neighbor might have gotten of you chasing around trying to get the butterfly picture. Haha!
Interesting post i believe we have those butterflies as well in Jamaica. Good to know someone else form the caribbean is here.
Yup, there are quite a few. @AnaHilarski was interviewed by our largest local paper about Crypto Currency and it will be published on Tuesday. That will be interesting!
This butterfly species is a legend from my past. We see many of the yellow variety but not much of the black up here in the North. I think it is a sign of luck when one of these amazing creatures appear.
Now that is some good news!
What a beautiful specimen. How exciting to find a rare species and be lucky enough to get close enough for photos. 😀
You know a lot about butterflies hilarski. You must love them.
I am wondered too whenever I see an exotic butterfly in my backyard.
Linda foto amiga
Nice! Reminds me of the "Steemit Mascot" butterfly I saw 9 months ago. :)
Wow, that one was gorgeous as well and "Steemit Mascot" is fitting.
I have a little buterfly too
wow!
Beautiful...
You are truly blessed to live in such a wonderful place @hilarski
Awesome @hilarski. Thanks for sharing!
Thankk Randy! Nice butterfly and man what is it sunny out there!
It is either Sunny or Raining like crazy, nothing in between.
Wow really amazing :)
Very pretty-- nice photos! I've seen one here, as far north as Western Washington state... a couple of years ago when we had a particularly warm summer and it was very dry. Normally, we only get the yellow swallowtails here.
Hi Randy, I'm so scattered ATM that I can't remember if we chatted ?
I'm new here, and living in Panama myself, did a steemit search https://steemit.com/static/search.html For Panama, And you where almost the only person that came up. I've followed ever since.
You are doing great here I'm so happy/inspired for/by you :-)
To see why is easy you are all pro, thanks for sharing yet another wonderful blog.
Steem on my friend
Life is Good - in Panama & steemit.com
Doh I forgot.. Imagine that :
I have people following because of interests in Panama so will also resteem all of your posts, as a nice compliment to my Panama Blog ( just starting )
2 so far and 1 more half done: about ants
Amazing pictures!
Beautiful butterfly.
Great pics @hilarski, what a pleasant surprise it must have been :)
Beautiful butterfly, insects looks lovely on the flowers...
Wow Randy, maybe he decided to stay with you instead of coming to NY. It is so much colder here this year, maybe that is a sign for this summers weather. ugh!