Fake eyes, and the swallow tail

This morning I was looking for a grasshopper to feed the praying mantis. In doing that I found a dark coloured swallowtail. Besides the the fact that it had dark colours it was still beautiful, it appeared to be be cold, because on my second try I caught it in my bare hands! And even after my hands were not cupped it didn't fly away at first. It was really amazing. After a while it it did fly away to a sun full spot it was beautiful. I read in a book the the name of this magnificent species check in the the next posts for it. Another amazing thing that happened was actually before the swallow tail encounter even though I wrote about the butterfly first. Anyway earlier in the month Davy and I witnessed some animal behavior thats possibly new to science! Well at least in our perspective.