Here are most stages of the Giant Swallowtail butterfly in my back garden over the past couple months or so. I couldn’t find the chrysalis, yet! But I’ll keep checking. Its host tree pictured is Ptelea trifoliata (hop tree). #hoptree #giantswallowtail #butterflygarden #swallowtailbutterfly

Giant swallowtails are so cool! This is a caterpillar on its host tree: Ptelea trifoliata (aka Hop Tree). #hoptree #pteleatrifoliata #giantswallowtail

Three pictures of a red admiral butterfly are shown, resting on a tree, then taking flight. It is mostly black with a ring of orange markings around the outer edges of its wings and white spots in the top outer corners of its forewings.

A western giant swallowtail butterfly is shown, feeding on a hibiscus flower before flying away. It is a black butterfly with many orange markings.

The butterfly party continues! Managed to (just barely) capture some video of a red admiral and a western giant swallowtail today.

#butterfly #redadmiral #giantswallowtail #swallowtail

Giant swallowtail butterfly on lantana #giantswallowtail #butterfly #pollinator

A large black butterfly with yellow stripe from wingtips to thorax/abdomen and yellow patches. 2 smaller red patches on its hindwings. Green leaves, brown branches, patches of white sky in background.

#GiantSwallowtail #ButterflyWeek #InsectThursday #butterflies #naturephotography #photography 📷

A giant swallowtail butterfly on a green leaf. It is facing upward. The butterfly is mostly black, with a line of yellow markings stretching all the way across its outstretched wings. There is a curved line of these yellow markings running from the top of the forewing all along the bottom of the hindwings. The head is black with two large black eyes and two thin white lines stretching from between the eyes toward the dark thorax. Its abdomen is also yellow, which can be seen between the two wings. A small patch of black or dark blue with a slight red line across it can be seen just above the curved yellow on the hindwing right at the center. There are two tails extending from the hindwings which are black with a yellow spot toward the tip.

Giant swallowtail. #GiantSwallowtail #EasternGiantSwallowtail #PapilioCresphontes #Swallowtail #Butterfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #RichardBongStateRecreationArea #Kansasville #Wisconisn

Three Giant Swallowtail Butterflies captured in one photograph. Captured at Oakwood Metro Park, New Boston, Michigan on 7/29/2025. #insectThursday #butterflies #photography #Michigan #pureMichigan #giantswallowtail #butterfly #photography #nature #naturephotography #metroparks #insects #bugsky

A Giant Swallowtail butterfly with black wings and yellow bands rests on a vivid magenta zinnia flower. The background is softly blurred greenery.

Spotted this Giant Swallowtail enjoying a zinnia at Stan Hywet.

#PhotoSky #BloomScrolling #NativePlants #ButterflySeason #GiantSwallowtail

Giant Swallowtail Butterfly, taken 7/23/2025 at Oakwoods, Metro Park, New Boston, Michigan. #puremichigan, #giantswallowtailbutterfly, #Michigan, #butterfly, #photography, #naturephotography, #butterflies, #giantswallowtail, #wings, #nature

Just wow. The butterflies were everywhere today! 🪶🦋

📍Circle B Bar Reserve - FL

#butterflies #giantswallowtail #wildlifephotography

It's hard to see where leaves are missing, but trust me this plant has been 60% defoliated. It is a meyer lemon tree, you can see the culprits on the main trunk.

As you can see, the tree was already having a tough year. Also, you can see why the caterpillars are referred to as bird poop caterpillars. They look gross, when they are smaller and less full of delicious meyer lemon leaves, they look even more like bird poop. Kind of no use in removing them now because it looks like it's almost cocoon time for them anyways.

Want the lemons, love the butterflies, what's a girl to do??
#GiantSwallowtail #MeyerLemon #GardenSky 🐛

A yellow and black Eastern Giant Swallowtail Butterfly rests on a dark green leaf with a purple underside.

Saw an Eastern Giant Swallowtail Butterfly today at Leu Gardens! It's the biggest butterfly in North America! 😍🦋

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #photography #myphoto #photographersofbluesky #photographersunite #florida #entomology #insectsofbluesky #butterfly #giantswallowtail

A giant swallowtail butterfly with wings wide open lands on leaves of a lime tree.

Hard to get a good photo of this beauty. #giantswallowtail #🦋 #butterfly

A sunlit golden and black giant swallowtail butterfly sips nectar from yellow flowers amidst frothing green foliage. A white house is just visible in the background.

Ahh, here she is. A giant swallowtail in her element. Now it is time to go do some planting for her. Feliz domingo.
#Stunday #Eastcoastkin #pollinators #nativeplants #Giantswallowtail #northamericanbutterflies #papillon #nature #macro #photographersofbluesky #photohour #photographersunited

The Giant Swallowtail Butterfly is the biggest butterfly in the US...this one harvested nectar in my Dunedin, Florida backyard flowers. #butterfly #swallowtail #giantswallowtail #insect #DunedinFlorida #naturephotography

Its a bird; its a plane...

#giantswallowtail #lookingup #butterfly #butterflies
#macrophotography #macro #photography #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #insects #focusonnature #onthewing #BlueSkyArtShow #wildlife #bugs #insectphotography #bug #flyinghigh
#theshuttersniper #newmexico

Found on my hike. A broken but beautiful #GiantSwallowtail butterfly. 💓

Didn't intervene; let nature keep on naturing.🦋

I caught this Giant Swallowtail with yellow body and no marks until back of neck as well as very patterned body typical of swallowtails)just as he left the Lantana with orange and red and yellow flowers. My yard in NE FL

While on Butterflies,here is a Giant Swallowtail in flight.

#butterflies #giantswallowtail #swallowtail #naturephotography

Giant Swallowtail on Thistle
NW MS Largest Butterfly in N America mostly eastern, more southern.

#butterfly #swallowtail #giantswallowtail #naturephotography
#insectphotography