Ron Wilson’s keen eye and steady hand perfectly captured this image of a butterfly that landed in the back yard of his Trail home last week.
Wilson said this could be a swallowtail, which is a large, colorful butterfly in the family Papilionidae.
Though the majority are tropical and include over 550 species, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica.
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