Observation date: May 22, 2020
Submitted by: mstanek
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: None.
Status: Resident
Verified by: Ken Davenport
Verified date: May 22, 2020
Coordinator notes: Several individuals looked at your "black" swallowtail and were unable to come up with a concensus. Probably a black Anise Swallowtail is the most likely. There is a record for a Desert Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes coloro) caterpillarin Ventura County, but Baird's Swallowtail (Papilio machaon bairdii) is far away in the San Bernardino Mountains where those are very rare. I was collecting in inland Ventura County myself today, I live in Bakersfield.-Ken Davenport
