Re: greenhouse/ butterflies

Gene, do you know the botanical of the Pipevine that the butterflies  like??  
I've had a butterfly garden for years, and belong to the local  group of 
NABA.  From my experiences and others, we've found that the  Pipevine Swallowtails 
here only seem to like the A. fimbriata and the natives  species.  No larval 
activity on A. gigantea, A. elegans, or A.  grande.  We've even tried to 
relocate caterpillars from the A. fimbriata  over to one of these since there was 
very little food left......but the  caterpillars died after eating the foliage. 
  (No pesticides, so that  wasn't it.)  This was my experience as well as 
others.  
 
Had the same experiences here with the Frittilary on Passionvines.   They 
seem to only go to the native species of Passiflora, and only one or so of  the 
other varieties.  I'm curious what species you (Gene and others) have  had 
success with.
 
Noreen
zone 9
Texas Gulf Coast
 
In a message dated 1/22/2006 2:17:04 PM Central Standard Time,  
gardenchat-owner@hort.net writes:

Also  have two species of pipe vine and our butterflies 
seem to prefer the  foreign species

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