Georgia Gardening: Butterflies in GA?, 2 by back40bean

back40bean wrote:
I have a fair number of Swallowtails and a few Gulf Fritillaries here in Decatur. Pics are from our cabin in NC where the David Lavender Phlox was recently alive with Swallowtails and only an occasional Fritillary.

Thanks so much for the Swallowtail information. I'd been thinking the black ones I saw were a separate species. I may have heard something in the past about Blue Swallowtails being a separate species and recalled that when seeing the black ones. I looked up the Blues and they look distinctly different and not really familiar to me.