Giant Blue Swallowtail moth This beautiful moth is encased

This beautiful moth is encased in a 9x9" frame and it's wingspan is 4

and Thailand

It is found from northern Argentina to Mexico

they're actually quite harmless and are only minor pests to beehives and crops

Giant Blue Swallowtail moth This beautiful moth is encasedPapilio zalmoxis is a giant African butterfly in the family Papilionidae. The name of the species is given in honor of Zalmoxis a divinity of the Getae (a people of the lower Danube), mentioned by Herodotus in his Histories IV, 9396. Previously thought to produce the blue colour by Tyndall scattering, the scales of Papilio zalmoxis are not nanostructured for incoherent scattering, instead the blue is a fluorescent pigmentary color. This species can be