Re: Black Swallowtail Caterpillars

I know it!! I was worried about our guineas or the birds eating them so
I went and bought some bird netting at Home Depot yesterday to lightly
cover them up - give them a fighting chance to survive. I will watch
them every day!

  

Judy Browning <judylee@lewiston.com> wrote:
  Very very wonderful. Just think how thrilling it will be when they are 
butterflies & their caterpillers show up!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Rene Bell" 
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Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:04 AM
Subject: [CHAT] Black Swallowtail Caterpillars


> Black Swallowtail Caterpillars
> O.K. ya'll, this is the THIRD year I have tried to grow my bronze fennel
> big enough to host the black swallowtail caterpillars. Last year the
> goofy peacocks ate my plants, the year before that we had too much rain
> and they rotted. BUT LOOK!!!! last night I went out and counted them -
> 58 caterpillars were on my plants!!! I went NUTS. I had to drag the
> whole family outside to look at them. The last words out of my mouth
> before I drifted off to sleep were, "58 of them, I counted...." My
> husband laughed because I was so excited.
>
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/silverhawk@flash.net/album?.dir=/7512re2&.src=ph&.tok=ph9h4OFBrNmx9WCo
>
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