All About Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterflies and Caterpillars

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Big, yellow butterflies are common in the east and fun to see in the garden. How to identify and attract Eastern tiger swallowtail butterflies to your lawn.

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Adults have a 3-inch wingspan but can grow to 5 1/2 inches. Adults have four black parallel stripes on each wing’s top and a complete black base stripe.

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Search the East Coast and Great Plains for Eastern tiger swallowtails. Their habitats include parks, suburbs, forests, and fields.

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Joe Pye weed, wild cherry, and lilac nectar feed adult butterflies. Wild cherry, tulip tree, cottonwood, sweetbay, willow, and white ash caterpillars delighted.

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Green eastern swallowtail caterpillars with big yellow and black decoy eyespots. They may extend orange “horns” when threatened.

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Canadian tiger swallowtail butterflies are smaller than eastern and western ones but seem similar. Geography distinguishes them.

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Western tigers live west of the Rocky Mountains, eastern tigers east of the Great Plains, and Canadian tigers north of Minnesota, Montana, and central New England.

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