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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: BetCrooks on September 10, 2014, 08:01:38 AM

Title: Pipevine Swallowtail Sept 8
Post by: BetCrooks on September 10, 2014, 08:01:38 AM

I saw a Pipevine Swallowtail at Lakeside Park in Mississauga on Sept 8. http://bugguide.net/node/view/993776 (http://bugguide.net/node/view/993776)
It didn't stick around though so who knows where it may be now!

Also a Nashville Warbler and a RT Hummingbird, for those expecting a bird report.

Title: Re: Pipevine Swallowtail Sept 8
Post by: Brian Bailey on September 10, 2014, 12:45:43 PM

Nice find! I'm no butterfly expert, but my recollection is that they are quite rare (in Canada at least). I know I've never seen one.  

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Title: Re: Pipevine Swallowtail Sept 8
Post by: BetCrooks on September 10, 2014, 01:45:57 PM

When I first saw it, I registered "large dark butterfly constantly flapping while feeding" so I thought it would be yet another Giant Swallowtail (which have been fairly common up around Ottawa for the past few years.) But I try to always get an id photo to help me remember to document what I've seen, so I went closer to take a pic. Then the sun shone off it making the wings as blue as a Morpho. They are a really pretty butterfly.

My brother has seen them a few times but not this year yet. I don't know if this is an incursion year or if this was just a single adventurer.