More butterflies have been spotted as the spring flowers have opened. A Tiger Swallowtail was visiting my lilacs that were just starting to open before taking a rest break on the pine tree. The larger female is more colorful than the male as it has more blue spots on its wing.

Male Tiger Swallowtail

It is a good thing that the male Eastern tiger swallowtails uses pheromones to entice the female butterfly since this male wouldn’t not get high marks for being handsome with his damaged and ripped wings.

Battered Butterfly

The butterflies numbers seem down from other years, but I did spot a tiger swallowtail today enjoying some of the summer flowers.

A Tiger Swallowtail 

Normally I spot the butterflies flying through the air or on flower blossoms, but after the rain, the wet sand drew this Tiger Swallowtail for drink.

Tiger Swallowtail

Flashes of yellow were seen around the yard as the Tiger Swallowtail butterflies were checking out the flower blossoms.

Yellow on Yellow

The long summer days gives more hours to spot butterflies darting around the blossoms in the yard like this Eastern Tiger Swallowtail.

Tiger Swallowtail

After snow yesterday and a cold this morning, the sun finally made its appearance, which I’m sure all the flowers appreciated as well as I did. The birds seemed to be happier too and I noticed the first grosbeak back. Butterflies flitted around in the afternoon sun and this larger tiger swallowtail butterfly was gathering some nectar from a dandelion.

Swallowtail Enjoying A Dandelion

A nice treat, during this mild week in November, was spotting a tiger swallowtail butterfly flying around and briefly landing on a pine tree before continuing on its flight across the yard.

November Tiger Swallowtail