I haven't seen any tiger swallowtails in a while, or any swallowtails for that matter, other than a few pipevine swallowtails. It's rained and/or been cloudy for over a week,and that, coupled with the fact that I think most swallowtails are in their larval or pupal stage now, they've been noticeably absent. But the sun came out today, and a yellow female tiger swallowtail visited the garden -

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She's either got some age on her or she got into the briars, since the bottom part of her wings and the 'tails' are gone. I'd LOVE for her to lay some eggs around here! I've never raised a yellow female tiger, just males and black females. I doubt that the tiger I raised recently, which is now a chrysalis, would be yellow if it's a female, because all I saw earlier were black females.

Yesterday an American lady and my first red-spotted purple emerged. The RSP was smallish, so I think he was a male. Today a bigger one emerged, probably a female. Unfortunately, neither of them have the long row of red spots on the end of their forewings - they both have just the typical two red spots. I was hoping to get a colony of extra red-spots going here like this one from last year -

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There are still three left to emerge, so maybe one or more of those will have the extra red spots.

Sherry