Today I was in our Tall Grass Prairie looking for a Common Yellowthroat Warbler's nest. I hadn't had any luck when I spied a female Eastern Black Swallowtail. I watched as she jumped around from coneflower to coneflower. All of a sudden out of the grass jumped a male and the chase was on. Finally he seduced her and mating began. For a while I was able to approach them and get several nice photographs. When they did move the male did the flying and in the picture he is on the bottom. I recorded the mating time as 6:15 PM on July 4, 2006. The flower pictured is Echinacea and is located in one of last years prairie plantings.
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That's an incredibly gorgeous shot. :)
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