Eastern Black Swallowtail

The underside of an Eastern Black Swallowtail butterfly.

Thank you for the nice comments on yesterdays flowers.  They survived the 65 mile drive to the funeral today and looked beautiful at my aunt's ceremony.  For anyone that is curious, I got the black effect around those flowers by taking the picture in the black cargo area of my SUV - I think I may have found a perfect mobile studio setting!  : ))