Wildflowers are blooming like crazy everywhere right now and local insects are loving it! I captured this Swallowtail butterfly enjoying a patch of hawkweed along Esther Lake Road in Grand Portage State Forest recently. Both sides of the road were lined with millions of flowers and it was difficult to pick out a particular patch to photograph. That is, until Jessica noticed a field of hawkweed combined with a large patch of bunchberry! We stopped to photograph the flowers and that's when this swallowtail flew in and began working the hawkweed. I got down on my stomach to get at eye level with the butterfly. There was a constant breeze, so getting a sharp exposure was a challenge as the flowers kept waving back and forth. Eventually I got a good one :-)
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