Black Swallowtail Butterfly Pink Echinacea Flowers Postcard

A beautiful female black swallowtail butterfly drinks nectar from a pink echinacea flower. Butterflies are symbols of happiness, travel or journeying, beauty and the arts, dancing and romance. The meaning of butterflies also includes with good fortune, community or society, entertainment and pleasure. In some cultures they are considered to be wandering souls, not to be harmed. Send this close up butterfly photo card to nature lovers, butterfly lovers, kids or adults, someone who enjoys animals or insects, keeping in touch, happy thoughts, or put her in a frame as wall art. This pretty butterfly is sipping nectar. She's about at the top of her range, in southern Canada. A colourful lady, she has a pattern of pale yellow with blue inside the wings, with some orange on the lower wings. The extensions of her lower wings are the reason for her name of swallowtail. Her black and yellow spotted abdomen helps with heat transfer. She must keep her body at a certain temperature. You can see she's cooling off because she has her abdomen below her wings. If she's too cold, she raises her abdomen. Butterflies have taste buds on their feet so they can tell from the moment of landing if the flower has something sweet to offer. Nature photo Sylvia Rose. Visit me on Twitter @Sylvia_FineArt. Have a happy day.