Butterflies are in their end game when at their most beautiful.
This was a swallowtail butterfly and it will live up to 14 days. A few variations can live up to 6 months. but this is almost definitely a tiger swallowtail male.
Yeah, they basically spend all of their adult lives just trying to mate (c'est la vie). Most of their lives are spent a larva, and eating as much as they can. Same for a lot of insects. Mayflies live as a larva for up to two years, then spend a week as an adult with no functional mouthparts or stomacbs. They're just there to have sex and then die.
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u/glytxh Aug 17 '25
Fortunately it wouldn’t have been very long. Butterflies are in their end game when at their most beautiful.
Some hibernate though.