Observation date: August 28, 2023
Submitted by: pjohnson_cbap
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: Flying from flower to flower within same variety on a sunny summer day in a residential neighborhood surrounded by woods and wetlands. A Tiger Swallowtail caterpillar was sighted in a vegetable garden 200 yards nearby in October 2023.
Status: Resident
Verified by: jwileyrains
Verified date: October 16, 2023
Coordinator notes: Difficult to be absolutely certain from this photo, but I believe this is probably P. canadensis, the Canadian Tiger Swallowtail, and not P. glaucus, the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. Obviously they're very similar, and both are found in Massachusetts.
