Luminaria bags at the Relay for Life in Albert Lea. August 12, 2018 A part of Minnesota’s plan to beautify its traffic signs. The eastern tiger swallowtail has four tiger stripes on its forewing. The larvae find food in the leaves of ash, basswood, birch, black cherry, chokecherry, cottonwood, mountain ash, poplar and willow trees. It is the time of year when swallows begin to think about leaving us. ← If I were a cicada, I’d be worried about this 1 1/2 inch long cicada killer wasp. A pearl crescent, lovely and tiny, on burdock. →