Observation date: July 10, 2022
Submitted by: sandyleapt
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Warm, sunny, breezy afternoon. Nectaring on Wood Betony in my garden. Have been seeing Western Swallowtails a couple weeks now. First one I was able to photograph. Up until July 4 we have been having and unusually cloudy, cool, wet spring.
Status: Resident
Verified by: Ken Davenport
Verified date: July 10, 2022
Coordinator notes: No Western Tiger Swallowtails were collected while I was in Oregon or Northern California, but they sure were common. Many Western Tigers and Pale Swallowtails were mud puddling where runoff from Mt. Shasta washed out and over 300 yards of road, mud puddling above the newly created waterfall. The former streambed is now a dry flat streambed. The bridge over the former stream was left intact. Needless to say, the road is closed.-, but open to hikers like me who waded across.-Ken Davenport
