A butterfly of the swallowtail family visited the flowers at the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau recently. The edges of the butterfly's wings appeared torn in several places, making it harder to identify what type of swallowtail it was. In many species of butterfly, an adult lives two weeks or less.
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