Giant Swallowtail Butterfly chrysalides look like broken branches. This one in the green lid is easy to spot, but check out the chrysalis hanging on this branch, and you can see how hard they are to find outside:

Ok, here's the secret to those butterfly on fingertip photos:

Raise the caterpillar inside in a bug box (after locating one on its host plant.)

After the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis it needs to hang upside-down for a LONG time to stiffen its wings before it can fly. During that time, you can hold it, look at it, and photograph it!

You must let it hang upside-down long enough for the wings to get hard, or the butterflies wings will dry crumpled and it will not be able to fly, so let it stay in its chosen position for a long while before you start trying to play with it and get pictures.

Here's a Giant Swallowtail Butterfly sipping nectar from a Hammock Snakeroot Flower.

By chance, I had two butterflies emerge at about the same time - a Giant Swallowtail, and an Orange-Barred Sulphur. I wanted pictures, and my son wanted to play with the butterflies, so I gently placed them on his shirt. The Orange-Barred Sulphur climbed up toward the Giant Swallowtail, the swallowtail didn't like that, so it climbed away - right up my sons face: