Posts Tagged: anise swallowtail butterfly

Beauty Isn't Skin Deep

Beauty isn't skin deep. It's wing deep. The Anise Swallowtail butterfly dazzles you with its yellow stripes and blue dots. If it were a painting, it would be a Michelangelo. If it were  music, it would be Vivaldi's "Spring." If it were a car, it...

We found this dazzling butterfly last weekend in the Berkeley marina parking lot. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A side view of the Anise Swallowtail butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

"Lepidopteran detective" Arthur Shapiro of UC Davis, a world-renowned butterfly expert, hosts a butterfly Web site, http://butterfly.ucdavis.edu/, and recently authored the "Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Valley Regions." (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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