Part of God's Marvelous Creation - Black Swallowtail

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Uploaded by on Aug 8, 2007

My son captured a beautiful black swallowtail butterfly here. We kept him only long enough to take this video and a few stills and then let it free. It was unharmed. It's a wonderful thing God made.

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  • By the way, it's awesome that you're teaching your son to have an appreciation of nature. Too many children today are raised without being aware of the various ecosystems and species they share the planet with.

  • Nice catch! But the phylogenies of the Papilio machaon species group have been reconstructed through mitochondrial DNA analysis. Divine intervention is not required.

    Source:

    Felix A. H. Sperling & Richard G. Harrison, "Mitochondrial DNA Variation Within and between Species of the Papilio machaon Group of Swallowtail Butterflies", Evolution, Vol. 48, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 408-422

    Coincidently, I know one of the authors personally :-)

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