Photographer: Ed Finney, Sarasota, Fla.

Summer in the South NEXT | START OVER | PREVIOUS A badly injured Giant Swallowtail, Papilio cresphontes, on Mexican Sunflower, Tithonia rotundifolia 'Torch'. The wing were so badly ripped and torn that one would think he/she couldn't fly, but it seemed to be flying very well. Submit a picture. Copyright © 2005 Consolidated Publishing Co.