Mine took what seemed like forever, too, Christie! My first two emerged the other day - I found them as early instar cats back in April! I never thought the chrysalides were dead, since they always had good color, but I did get impatient. One of mine was a black female and one was a male, which was good. Yellow females always have a LOT of blue, while males have either no blue or only a tiny touch on the hindwings near their body. A yellow female -

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I'm presently raising three more, all in that green instar with the cream-colored saddle. By the way, I've never raised a yellow female, just males and black females - maybe one of these three will be a yellow female?

It's too bad you didn't get a more even male/female ratio. Hopefully, that one female will lay plenty of eggs!

Sherry

Christie...I have been releasing BSTs that I collected from my yard & from a plant nursery. So far...I have released 24 BSTs & only 6 have been female. Not sure why there are so many more males than females???
I also have been waiting several weeks for them to start emerging & had had them inside my AC home & decided to put the boxes out on my back porch. The first batch that had been sitting for almost a month...all eclosed in 2 days. So I put the others out & have had another 17 eclose the past few days. I was wondering maybe it is the temps or the lighting that makes a difference???
I have been seeing a couple of GSTs flitting around my yard today but still no TSTs! Hopefully, I will start getting some GST babies to raise soon!
I have my 4th round of PVSTs eggs on new A.fimbriata growth but the mamas don't seem to lay their eggs on my A.tormentosas. I keep having to move the cats to the tormentosas because the fimbriata keeps running out!!!
Good luck with your babies!!!
Lila

None of my yellow tigers had a row of blue like that. I'm sure they must've been males, just the two tiny dots of blue or none at all.
I released the last one of the 10 today, a dark form female. Finally another female! Hope she doesn't mind going from our comfy air conditioned house to the furnace outside.
Very pretty photo by the way Sherry. Wish I would see more like that. I'd really like to see one leaving me some eggs to bring in.

Speaking of dark form females, Christy, I got a picture of this one in my garden today -

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One female can lay a LOT of eggs, so you'll undoubtedly be finding some soon.

Sherry

Those are pretty too Sherry. I shouldn't be picky I guess. I wonder how far they travel after I release them. They sure don't stay around in my yard. Wish they would.