Swallowtail Egg

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guest: praersh, 05.01.2010 16:31

Four years ago http://zhurnal.lib.ru/editors/t/tarutin_w_...ershovo04.shtml I imagined the stages of development of the Swallowtail in the photos, there was only one – the egg stage, and, it seems, at least to myself, I expressed doubts about the reality of receiving such a photo.

And here at about 15-30 on July 26, 2009, watering and fertilizing strawberries with a ghostly hope for the future harvest (Meshchera, Yershovo village), I saw a large Swallowtail fluttering over the dill. Of course, at that moment I didn't have a camera, I just had to follow its flight. And its flight was unusual, and I thought that the Swallowtail, or rather the Swallowtail, chooses a fresher dill bush for the future nutrition of its offspring. Especially long (I didn't have a stopwatch with me either – two or four seconds) The swallowtail lingered at a growing, not yet blooming dill bush, and then flew away from the dill bed and sat below the flowers on the mullein stalk, unfurling its wings as if posing. I ran home to get my camera, came back fully armed, and of course the model had already flown away. But I was still incredibly lucky. Armed with glasses, the magnifying glass began to examine the dill bushes where the Swallowtail was hanging, on one of them, where he noted a particularly long hang, he found a yellow ball with a diameter of about one millimeter attached to the bottom of the leaf – this is probably the Swallowtail egg!

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