| After posting this photo, I got an e-mail from Ron Gatrelle stating that this may actually be the undescribed seperate species of the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail that is in the NC Mountains. He says, "The new [species] is huge compared to the small spring glaucus with lots of black on the inner part of the hind wing next to the body, and a solid line (not spots) on the underside of the forewing along its very edge.....The undescribed Tiger is only out in spring and early summer as it only has one brood a year." He also said that it looks more like the Canadian Tiger Swallowtail than the Eastern. I looked---and sure enough it does! Wow!!!!! |
