Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Greeting Card | Rochester Prairie, Iowa

Share the beauty of an Iowa summer with an archival, frameable fine art photo greeting card featuring an eastern tiger swallowtail on wild bergamot at Rochester Cemetery Prairie. 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, turning your handwritten greeting into a keepsake to display.

Card details

• Size: Landscape folding card, 7” wide × 5” 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

An eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) spreads its wings in close-up over wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) at Rochester Cemetery Prairie Oak Savanna in Rochester, Iowa. Bold yellow-and-black striped wings fill the frame, iridescent blue-green scaling gleaming along the lower wing edges, lavender bergamot blooms soft and luminous in the background. One of the Midwest’s most iconic butterflies, photographed at the height of summer on one of its favorite native wildflowers.

A meaningful gift for a butterfly enthusiast, pollinator advocate, prairie and savanna lover, or anyone who has ever watched a tiger swallowtail work through a patch of bergamot and wished they had a camera.

Back of card: Blank, with the Midwest Wilderness Connections logo and the following description along the bottom edge: “Eastern Tiger Swallowtail on wild bergamot. Rochester Cemetery Prairie, Rochester, Iowa. — Midwest Wilderness Connections www.MidwestWildernessConnections.com”

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