For #LearnAboutButterfliesDay:
"Montreal, June 1792. The Black as rich as velvet; the inside of the above butterfly." #SciArt by Elizabeth Simcoe (English, 1762-1850). Identifiable as a female Eastern Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
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