Swallowtail Butterflies and Caterpillars

These black swallow caterpillars really love the dill and the fennel, wish I had planted even more of it earlier in the year to have some to harvest as well. The adult pictured on the grape leaf is the male black swallowtail adult, Papilio polyxenes.

That yellow adult pictured below is eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus, I haven’t found any of their larvae yet they look quite different). It is after that vining milkweed Cynanchum laeve, aka sandvine or honeyvine, which I did make a point of allowing a few to grow in the garden although this was spotted out and about.