This beautiful, deck-loving yet camera shy butterfly showed up on my deck yesterday. I thought it could be a black swallowtail but it lacked the swallow tails. These red-spotted purple butterflies don't dainty dine on flower tops or milkweed plants. These beauties eat rotting fruit, rotting animals and the sap of trees. They lay their eggs on willow trees and black cherry trees. I have black cherry trees. What a gift this butterfly turned out to be. Surely karma brought it to my deck when I happened to look out.
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