I was finally able to get a few pics of a Giant Swallowtail visiting the neighbor's Meyer Lemons. For being such a big butterfly, these guys are quick and skittish. I wasn't planning on taking butterfly pics...I was out taking pics of the baby bananas so I didn't have the lens on that I would normally use to shoot them.

Am I right in assuming that this is a female based on the following?

- the broad yellow stripe across the top of the hind wings is horizontal and not diagonal

- the red and blue spots on the hind wings are big and bright

- the abdomen is thick

- it spent lots of time at the 3 trees (though I didn't see it laying eggs)

Good thing that the neighbor is a snow bird. She told me I could have all the fruit I want and she doesn't care or even know that this GS caterpillar will eat the leaves LOL

Rhonda

Rhonda