Eight California pipevine swallowtails sit on dirt with distinctive wings.
An overhead view of eight California pipevine swallowtail sitting on a dirt surface. The butterflies are all facing different directions in the image, the front of their wings are a very dark shade of blue, the wings fade into a regular shade of blue in the back. Along the back edges of the wings are white dots lining the edge of the wings. There are two large gray rocks at the bottom of the image, one extending from the bottom left corner and the other in the bottom right corner of the image. There are leaves and sticks scattered throughout the surface in the image, a larger concentration of leaves and sticks are in the top half portion of the image.