A Striking Pollinator

Here’s another beauty I captured in the below photos yesterday on my walk, a female Black Swallowtail butterfly.

There were many busily fluttering about but only this little lady was feeling photogenic, the others, not so much -

She was dining on the nectar of a red clover flower -

Believe it or not, according to the Google machine, the Black Swallowtail is one of the most common and familiar butterflies in eastern and central North America.

I would have guessed it to be the Monarch butterfly. I stand corrected ☺️