Gloria's Insects: Dressed to the Nines

Photo copyright Gloria Z. Nagler

Dressed to the nines, right?

Wouldn't bet the farm on my i.d., but certainly it's a swallowtail, and the Oregon Swallowtail looks closest to these untrained eyes. 

They're Pacific Northwest butterflies, and the official insect of Oregon. Now I gotta see if Washington has one of those:) 

I adore everything about her, and especially her red and blue splashes at the edges of her wings.

--Gloria Z. Nagler