Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterfly Pix, #102, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
Well, DG just logged me out for some strange reason. Anyway, I have some good news to share with everyone. I was walking the yard and decided to check my Sweetbay tree since I hadn't checked in it a while. I saw this scary green bug sitting on top of a leaf (picture 1). I've seen these guys before but I don't know what they are. I kept looking up and I saw a shadow moving on one of the leaves. It looked like a caterpillar so I bent down the branch and on top of the leaf I found - a Tiger Swallowtail caterpillar! My Sweetbay worked to bring them in. Well, just one. I looked all over the tree and only found one caterpillar (I blame the scary green bug). That tree cost me $60 but it's worth it to provide food for a pretty butterfly.

I have only ever had Tiger STs once before and that's when I was on vacation in WV a few years ago. I made a big mistake leaving them in the car while we went into the Fenton Glass factory and they overheated and died. Never leave any living thing in a hot car is the lesson learned there!

Look forward to many more pictures as my baby Tiger ST grows up!

Melanie