Undercarriage down, preparing to land

Seeing a Swallowtail butterfly in Italy is always a shock. They are just so big:

Swallowtail Butterfly - Matera - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

The Parco della Murgia Materana is full of them. There’s the scent of Thyme as we walk through the dry fields. It’s as if we’re intruding on someone’s herb garden.

I attempt a photograph of a Swallowtail in flight:

Swallowtail Butterfly - Matera - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

It has all six legs dangling ready to catch hold of this flower. What an amazing feat of natural engineering.

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