Swallowtail

In this file photo released from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, entomology professor Tom Emmel, left, and graduate student Matt Lehnert admire a preserved specimen of the Homerus swallowtail butterfly at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity on UF’s main campus in Gainesville. The largest butterfly in the Western hemisphere, the Homerus is endangered and found only in two parts of Jamaica. Lehnert recently published the first study estimating the size of the population in western Jamaica, about 50 adults.

(Josh Wickham, UF/IFAS)
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