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Eastern Black Swallowtail on Thistle; 16 June 2023; 12:48pm

Eastern Black Swallowtail on Thistle; 16 June 2023; 12:48pm

On a recent roadside photo trip, I happened upon an area with a wide variety of flowers in bloom. However in a patch all by itself was this lone Texas Thistle.<...
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On a recent roadside photo trip, I happened upon an area with a wide variety of flowers in bloom. However in a patch all by itself was this lone Texas Thistle.

Then this Eastern Black Swallowtail showed up., apparently only interested in thistle.

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Canon EOS REBEL T2i

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Aperture 20/1 ISO 1600 Shutter 1/500 Focal Length 205/1

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Smithville, Texas, US

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Sep, 2023

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