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Life Cycle of Swallowtail Butterfly

A vintage-style scientific illustration on aged cream paper depicts the life cycle of a Papilio machaon butterfly, featuring a spread-winged adult, a caterpillar on a dill plant, and a resting adult butterfly.

An Old World swallowtail butterfly with yellow and black patterned wings and blue eye spots, Victorian scientific plate in gouache on aged cream paper, delicate wing venation, soft matte finish. See more

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