female eastern Tiger Swallowtail, yellow morph

WHAT A STUNNING BUTTERFLY!!!!

Thanks! She was on my rose of sharon bush and actually stayed still for a moment.

Gorgeous colour!

that is beautiful, thanks for showing it

Beautiful butterfly - great photo!

Have you seen many butterflies this season, Lauram? We have bees, hoverflies, hummingbirds and hummingbird moths but have rarely seen a butterfly so far this summer. There is a man here in Ontario who led a crusade to get the common milkweed, asclepias syriacus, removed from the noxious weeds list!! Hurray! He is a monarch butterfly booster...I'm so glad that he went the extra mile...I've always complained about the short sighted, urbancentric attitude in government...so when I heard about him I was like: YES!!!

Now we are - I'm seeing so many swallowtails, fritillaries and red-spotted purples. It used to kill me when I lived in New Jersey....we had a beautiful patch of milkweed near the house and it was all torn down to "improve" the area. Nobody cares that monarchs are declining because of all the "weeding." I hope that man is successful.
I tend to leave all of the so-called noxious weeds - goldenrod, boltonia etc. - because they're so beloved by birds and butterflies. I'll post a photo of my place in autumn; the backyard is just a meadow of goldenrod.

Good for you, Lauram. I contain the goldenrod but encourage the milkweed! You are so right... and the man was successful...milkweed is no longer on the noxious weed list here in Ontario because it is needed by the monarch butterfly.
If I see one more screaming headline about giant hogweed on facebook and elsewhere on the net I'm going to scream in somebody's ear! They are trying to do with the giant hogweed what they didn't succeed in doing to the lythrum...talk about henny-penny. The plant is big enough that it is easily seen...and granted if you get some of the sap from it's leaves or stalk in a cut or open sore it will ulcerate...but if you see the darn thing ...stay away from it... It's not hard to remove...and it is not a triffyd!~~!....lol. ok...rant over...I feel better now. Thanks for letting me get that off my chest, Lauram! lol.

Fabulous butterfly.....