February butterflies in Central Texas

[Mike Canzoneri]

Add to this list a female Papilio polyxenes (Eastern Black Swallowtail)
ovipositing on bronze fennel today and a female Battus philenor (Pipevine
Swallowtail) trying to get at the Aristolochia in my screened-in patio.
I've never seen that kind of activity this early in the year here in Texas.


Mike Canzoneri wrote:

> Well, it's the first week of February and so far in the last week or two
> I've seen the following in my backyard in Austin, TX:
>

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