Consider joining the National Wildlife Federation's Backyard Habitat Program. Bright yellow with black tiger stripes. Yellow-green eggs deposited on trees including willow, birch, tulips and cherries. Newly hatched caterpillars look like brown and white bird droppings. Becomes a smooth green larva with orange eyespots and yellow back band.
Larva like to feed in tree tops.
When not feeding, they rest in a rolled leaf. Before changing into a chrysalis, the caterpillar turns brown. Green or brown chrysalides hang from a twig. Male tiger likes to puddle, or take up rich salts in mud or wet sand. Females are known by the blue on the upper surface of hindwing.