23 September 2005

The Tiger Swallowtail

Christian Thorsten, CR Scientific

Here's a photo I took of Papilio glaucas, the tiger swallowtail. The flower is Echinacea purpurea, the purple coneflower, a source of some interesting phytochemicals on which I may write an article at some future time.


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Figure 1. A very nice head on view of a tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucas) sipping nectar from a purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea). Photograph by chemist Christian Thorsten.
   
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