Giant Swallowtail Egg [Papilio cresphontes]

    This Giant Swallowtail egg (measuring less than 1 mm. in size) was photographed within minutes after being deposited by a female butterfly on a tangerine tree leaf in southeastern Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida on 9/7/2010. The female butterfly ultimately deposited a number of eggs, but only on new growth leaves, after carefully inspecting the small tangerine tree.

Giant Swallowtail Egg [Papilio cresphontes]

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