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slsommer

2008-08-17
steps: 24,026
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Regular long walk in late afternoon (lazed away the early morning before church, then out to eat). Watched the Olympics while riding the stationery bike. Maybe will get more steps yet tonight -- though I still feel sort of lazy.

Maybe this is a Pipevine Swallowtail, Battus philenor though there are butterflies which mimic it, and I don't know the pipevine. For good reason, I don't believe it's in Illinois. So... ? Feeding on the toxic pipevine protects the caterpillars, just as feeding on the milkweed protects the Monarch caterpillars. Let me know if you know more about this butterfly than I do.

www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/pipe … owtail.htm
www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1350
Mandolin minutes above 1 hr: 25
Alternate aerobic exercise minutes: Stationery bike: 20

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Mary
posted August 17 8:50 pm
Beautiful blue against the green.
slsommer
posted August 17 8:53 pm
Thank you; it was certainly a flittery thing. Wasn't able to get as good a shot as I'd hoped.
Mary
posted August 17 8:55 pm
I'm off to bed. Sweet dreams!
aekingsley
posted August 18 5:51 am
What a beautiful butterfly.  Susan, were you a botanist in your former life?  :)  If not, you have missed your calling!
slsommer
posted August 18 6:13 am
Never a botanist; always an appreciator. Somehow, my science courses were always full of labeling and classifying and learning terms -- at least from my perception. Wasn't my cup of tea. I'm really glad, though, to have someone else doing the classification and labeling
chinds
posted August 18 6:21 am
I haven't seem a butterfly like that one before! It is beautiful.
mcarr
posted August 18 7:09 am
Susan,
    Watch out riding that stationary bike and watching the Olympics.  I did the same thing during the bike races---no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't catch the break away groups, nor could I beat them to the FINISH line----LOL.
MaryS
posted August 18 7:55 am
It is a beautiful butterfly.
phillipskaye
posted August 18 6:54 pm
I am not familiar with this butterfly.  It certainly is striking.