Image of Indra Swallowtail

Description:

The target for the day! Brock & Kaufman are positively effusive on the subject of this butterfly, and it's certainly a looker. Apparently Anise can also have a similar black form, and indeed, this BG pic is almost identical: bugguide.net/node/view/322993/bgimage. The behavior was right out of Kaufman, though: hill-topping just below the summit, ceding the top to a typical-looking Anise. Hosts on a variety of plants in Apiaceae, including Lomatium. Lomatium marginatum and Lomatuum dasycarpum abundant at this locaiton.