Sharon, thanks so much for sharing your beautiful memories--I can just see you with your kind heart making the effort to climb the tree to rescue the June Bugs, and giving the various critters proper burials near the cedar tree.
I too have noticed more than the usual number of tiger swallowtails in my yard this summer, and it's been such a pleasure! They really are such pretty butterflies!
I am convinced that Killer emerged and flew off, and her chrysalis fell somewhere unseen...