After the rain
by Nava Thompson
Title
After the rain
Artist
Nava Thompson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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(2022 contest winner- WOMAN'S TOUCH contest for Butterflies and Flowers)(2018 Butterfly Beauty Contest winner 2nd place)(First place win in SWALLOWTAIL butterfly contest)(First Place Winner in 'Flowers With Butterflies' contest. A photo taken by Nava Thompson. The yellow Swallowtail Butterfly was enjoying the raindrops on the Marigold after a much needed rain. (Third Place Winner in Butterfly Contest)..................Featured in 'God's Creation' group and 3-Day Cards for all Occasions' group.............................This article is about the insect family. Swallowtail ButterflySwallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, which includes over 550 species.[1] Though the majority are tropical, members of the family occur on every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the (genus Ornithoptera). Swallowtails have a number of characteristic features; for example, on the prothorax a Papilionid caterpillar bears a repugnatorial organ called the osmeterium. The osmeterium normally is hidden, but when threatened, the larva everts it through a transverse dorsal groove[3] by inflating it with blood. It is a fleshy, forked structure and emits smelly secretions containing terpenes, which the larva typically tries to smear onto any attacker touching it.The detailed descriptions of morphological characteristics of the Papilionidae, as quoted in Bingham (1905) are as follows:...............................................Egg. "Dome-shaped, smooth or obscurely facetted, not as high as wide, somewhat leathery, opaque." (Doherty.) Larva. Stout, smooth or with a series of fleshy tubercles on the dorsum : sometimes with a raised fleshy protuberance (the so-called hood or crest) on the fourth segment which is also generally thickened above. The second segment has a transverse opening, out of which the larva can protrude at will an erect, forked, glandular fleshy organ that emits a strong, somewhat pleasant, but always penetrating odour. Pupa. Variable in form but superiorly most often curved backwards, sometimes very strongly so ; angulate, with the head truncate or rounded, often bifid ; back of abdomen smooth or tuberculate. Attached by the tail, normally in a perpendicular position, and further secured by a silken girth round the middle. In Parnassius strangely enough the pupa is placed in a loose silken web between leaves. Imago. Wings extraordinarily variable in shape. Hind wing very frequently with a tail, which may be slender, or broad and spatulate, but is always an extension of the termen at vein 4. In one genus, Armandia, the termen of the hind wing is prolonged into tails at the apices of veins 2 and 3 as well as at vein 4. Pore wing (except in the aberrant genera Parnassius and Hypermnestra) with all 12 veins present and in addition a short internal vein, vein 1 a,......... that invariably terminates on the dorsal margin. There is also a short transverse vein present at base of wing between the median vein and vein 1a in all genera except Leptocircus, Armandia, Parnassius, and Hypermnestra. Hind wing : vein 1a absent; precostal vein and precostal cell both present; dorsal margin not excavated so as to receive the abdomen, but in the male frequently folded over and studded within the fold with specialized scales (androconia) or hairs that are often strongly scented. Antennae comparatively short, with generally a distinct club; "the distal joints mostly more expanded ventrally than dorsally, so that the club is curved dorsad" (Jordan). The scaling most extended in Leptocircus, but in Papilio confined to the basal joints. Body stout; claspers at apex of abdomen in the male generally well-developed, absent in a few forms. Six walking legs; the fore tibiae with a medial pad; claws simple except in one form of Leptocircus, which has them bifid.
Contest win in Butterflies and Flowers by A WOMAN'S TOUCH! (3rd place)
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August 29th, 2012
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Marilyn DeBlock
Beautiful capture! Congrats on your 3rd place win in the Butterflies and Flowers contest.
Jennie Breeze
Wonderful detail Nava! Congrats on your 3rd place win in the Butterflies and Flowers contest. F/L
Judi Dressler
Congrats on your 3rd place win in the Butterflies and Flowers contest for this lovely photo, Nava!
Brooks Garten Hauschild
Congratulations on your 3rd place win in 'Butterflies and Flowers', Nava! Got my vote. My Pleasure to host the contest. Please share your winning image in our 'A Woman's Touch' group thread 'Contest Winners'. Fvl.
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Nava – your bug macro scene has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2021 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.