The Zebra Swallowtail Butterflies

They float rather than fly with their kite-tailed long wings, watch them descending on tulips, blueberries and lilacs: these butterflies are yellow-green striped and love pawpaw trees; imagine Nature without their fluttering sounds and stunning colors! The zebra swallowtail butterflies work too hard as they constantly move, sipping the sweet nectar found on flowers and trees, but not on clove! Oh, they are as delicate as petals...ever wondered where they came from? Their life span is brief and before winter arrives, they'll be gone and won't roam. Plant more shrubs and fragrant flowers and your garden will be visited by them on cool and warm afternoons so scented and dandy, and they will leave as the shadowy evening brings on many lady-bugs to replace those lovely zebra swallowtails with their constant glows. Yesterday around noon, a zebra swallowtail butterfly fell into my open hand, I tried to console with my human touch...she was badly hurt; her wings were broken and she could hardly crawl or look... perhaps she wanted me to keep her and remember her after she was dead.