Spicebush Swallowtail Greeting Card | Roberts Savanna, Illinois

Share an elegant summer visitor with an archival, frameable fine art photo greeting card featuring a spicebush swallowtail on wild bergamot at Roberts Cemetery Savanna Nature Preserve in Illinois. Blank inside for your own words, it’s a thoughtful birthday card, thank-you, or just-because gift for a butterfly lover. The photograph fits a standard 5”×7” frame, giving the recipient a keepsake to display long after the occasion.

Card details

• Size: Portrait folding card, 5” wide × 7” high
• Print: Archival pigment inks on archival glossy cardstock, colorfast and fade-resistant for years to come
• Interior: Blank with matte finish for your own message
• Envelope: Archival white envelope included
• Frame it: The fine art photo fits a standard 5”×7” frame, so the recipient can enjoy it long after the occasion

The story behind the photograph

A spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus) feeds from wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) at Roberts Cemetery Savanna Nature Preserve in Litchfield, Illinois. Its deep blue-black wings are trimmed with iridescent blue-green scaling, perched atop a lavender bloom in a lush tangle of savanna vegetation glowing in summer green. One of the Midwest’s most elegant butterflies, visiting one of its most beloved native wildflowers.

A meaningful gift for a butterfly enthusiast, pollinator advocate, prairie and savanna lover, or anyone who has ever paused on a summer trail to watch a swallowtail work through a patch of bee balm.

Back of card: Blank, with the Midwest Wilderness Connections logo and the following description along the bottom edge: “Spicebush Swallowtail on wild bergamot. Roberts Cemetery Savanna, Litchfield, Illinois. — Midwest Wilderness Connections www.MidwestWildernessConnections.com”

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