The Battus philenor have been out in amazing numbers in North TX for the past several weeks, especially following the first heavy spring rain here, earlier this month. I can't recall ever having seen such an impressively large number of philenor in past years. We had two unusually hard freezes in Nov / Dec, but it doesn't appear to affected their population.
A great memory from my younger days was seeing the blooming mimosa trees full of philenor, cresphontes and glaucus. Those particular trees are now long gone, but I can still witness the same spectacle every summer, from the new mimosas that have grown up on my own property and in neighbor's yards. I can see from YouTube, that others have had the same experience -
Battus philenor
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Re: Battus philenor
A splendid butterfly !
Re: Battus philenor
In the video, that’s not a two tailed swallowtail, but rather P. glaucus. That video was shot in Maryland.
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