flowergirl_VA: Thanks! My passion wobbles back and forth between gardening and photography. This way I get to combine them! cheleinri: I have never seen a white one like this before. The regular milkweed doesn't have a lot of color, but it's not white by any means. Joan: Thanks you! See me reply to flowergirl! *grin*

Thank you for the info., Runmede. I've brought a few cats indoors and they are eating great. Their behavior is interesting. Each time I go back to the plant for more leaves, the second I touch a leaf every cat on the plant turns loose and falls to the ground. I've never experienced this with swallowtail or monarch cats. Sure, they will drop off if disturbed enough, but I wonder why they don't drop off at the slightest disturbance. Seems like more of them would survive. Dana

Looks like aster yellows (phyto....) to me, except the link below says plants will show chlorosis. The leaf hoppers spread it, apparently. Compare the pictures in the link. Looks like that weird seed head. If you grew that stand in a year, I'd get rid of the plants, but save the good seed. Take a year off and maybe plant w/ a cover crop (not aster-related). Then put new plants in. And maybe spray to keep the leaf-hoppers off. Just a guess, but might work. Really nice looking plants you've got, but the disease is incurable and apparently will warp all the flowers. Good luck. Here is a link that might be useful: Aster yellows

Thanks for the comments. I've never had Zebra Swallowtails in NY so this is a treat for me to see them. I first saw them last year here. Not too many of the other varieties. I only have 1 new to the garden daylily left that hasn't bloomed. I've sprayed the garden again last night since the deer have their fawns running around like dogs in the yard. I need to go and look at the tree a deer keeps chewing the leaves on. Stands up on hind legs to reach the branches. Craziest thing. Bad news on my garden tractor. It needs a new motor so won't be back for at least 2 weeks. Not an expense we wanted to have. Julia