{"id":4771,"date":"2011-08-20T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/?p=4771"},"modified":"2017-05-28T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T15:50:55","slug":"tiger-swallowtail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/bug-of-the-week\/tiger-swallowtail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Swallowtail (Family Papilionidae)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salutations, BugFans,<\/p>\n<p>The BugLady hopes that everyone else here in God\u2019s Country is enjoying the magical second brood of Tiger Swallowtails. The first brood, in June, was nothing to write home about, but apparently, they got the job done. Tiger swallowtails are everywhere, soaring and looping through the air, complementing the grassland flowers, gathering around puddles for minerals, and unfortunately, playing \u201cChicken\u201d with cars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/t-swllwtail11-12rz.jpg\" alt=\"t-swllwtail11-12rz\" width=\"630\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/t-swllwtail11-12rz.jpg 630w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/t-swllwtail11-12rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[metaslider id=4798]<\/p>\n<h3>Tiger Swallowtails<\/h3>\n<p>Tiger swallowtails are BIG butterflies. Canary-sized butterflies, with wingspreads approaching 5\u00bd\u201d. The males are tiger-striped. Some of the females share that yellow and black coloration, and a tiger with an extra dollop of blue on the hind wings is likely to be a female. There are also dark morph females (commonly misidentified as Black swallowtails, but Black swallowtails are noticeably smaller, \u201ctrimmer,\u201d and faster-flying than the dark tigers). Dark female tigers are said to be mimicking pipevine swallowtails, a southern species that is poisonous because its caterpillar host plant (pipevine) is poisonous&mdash;a mimicry that is useless here because Pipevine swallowtails are uncommon. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/t-swllwtail11-11brz.jpg\" alt=\"t-swllwtail11-11brz\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/t-swllwtail11-11brz.jpg 500w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/t-swllwtail11-11brz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/t-swllwtail11-11brz-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tiger Swallowtails were featured (along with Black Swallowtails) in a BOTW back in April of 2008. The other swallowtail in the neighborhood, the Giant swallowtail, is a regular southern visitor that has also had its own BOTW (Reruns available at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riveredgenaturecenter.org\/\">Riveredge<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/category\/bug-of-the-week\/\">51ÁÔÆæ Field Station<\/a> websites).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/bl-swllwtail-19rz.jpg\" alt=\"Black Swallowtail\" width=\"433\" height=\"460\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/bl-swllwtail-19rz.jpg 433w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/bl-swllwtail-19rz-282x300.jpg 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/gnt-swllwtl-9rz.jpg\" alt=\"gnt-swllwtl-9rz\" width=\"630\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/gnt-swllwtl-9rz.jpg 630w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/field-station\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2011\/08\/gnt-swllwtl-9rz-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some butterflies produce a single brood here in the north, while others have enough time to produce two generations. Caterpillars of the first brood spend a short time as a pupa in a chrysalis before emerging as an adult during the same summer. Their offspring overwinter as pupae. Monarchs may go through three generations here, but only the late summer brood (called Gen 5 because they are the fifth generation removed from the wintering sites in the mountains of Mexico) will live long enough to travel south and begin a return journey the next spring (which is why they are the only generation that is \u201ctagged\u201d for migration studies).<\/p>\n<p>If there is a poster child for \u201cPerfect,\u201d it\u2019s a Tiger swallowtail. Stop what you\u2019re doing, go outside, and enjoy the show&mdash;it\u2019s almost over.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em>The Bug Lady<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tiger Swallowtails<\/strong> are big butterflies. Canary-sized butterflies, with wingspreads approaching 5\u00bd\u201d. The males are tiger-striped. 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