A female spicebush swallowtail flitted around here a few weeks ago and laid the most eggs on one very small sassafras I've ever seen. She even laid two on a leaf, not typical of their egg laying pattern at all. I guess it was because the other sassafras bushes/trees weren't in as much sun as this one and their leaves hadn't fully grown out - they were just starting their new growth. There are several bigger sassafras in my garden with no eggs or cats (the last time I looked) on them, so I'll transfer most of these over to those plants when they get bigger and need more leaves. The garden sassafras are filling out nicely. I won't be raising these in a cage, since it's nearly impossible to keep new sassafras growth from wilting in a water pick or leftovers container. I also found two spicebush nests on some redbay, which they use occasionally.

Since I had to hold my camera so far away from the sassafras to get all the nests in the picture, you probably can't count all ten, but at least you can see what I'm talking about -

Sherry