Re: greenhouse/ butterflies

Hrm.  According to:
http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/butterfly/2004041551026161.html

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Pipevine swallowtail caterpillars will die if raised on tropical pipevines.
Please only use the pipevines on the list.

Pipevine Swallowtail
- Pipevine family, Aristolochia
1. Aristolochia macrophylla - big leaf pipevine
2. Aristolochia tomentosa - woolly pipevine
3. Aristolochia serpentaria - Virginia snakeroot
4. Aristolochia californica - California pipevine
5. Aristolochia fimbriata - white-veined Duchman's pipe

(Though I try not to read everything I believe.
 Strike that.
 Reverse.
)

-s z5b

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:36:21PM -0500, Gene Bush wrote:
> Hello Noreen,
>     We get occasional feeding on the Aristolochia durior. It is locate on 
> the garden entrance in a bit of shade and heavy soil, not doing as well as 
> it could with more light and deeper soil. Perhaps that is the reason it is 
> not used as much by the butterflies. However, we have A. clematitis that got 
> loose in the display beds and we leave it there between the other containers 
> ... it gets stripped every late summer. We can not find the cocoons 
> though... one day everyone is fat and happy, next they have disappeared.
>     We have had the local maypop one year now... it got hit fairly heavy 
> this summer. We only work with what is hardy to this area. Wish we could 
> grow some of the more exotic pipevines.
>     Gene E. Bush
> Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
> www.munchkinnursery.com
> genebush@munchkinnursery.com
> Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <TeichFlora@aol.com>
> > 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
> 
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