Re: Re: Butterfly population

Cathy - what does an American Snout look like?  My yard is full of hackberry trees.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: cathy carpenter
Sent: 6/28/2004 9:53:05 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Butterfly population

> I've been trying to actively keep or plant as many host plants as I 
> can. Have hackberry trees in our woods and was delighted to see an 
> American Snout last year - talk about cute. Am trying for as many 
> different Swallowtail host plants as possible: Dutchman's pipe for the 
> Pipevine Swallowtail, Pawpaw for the Zebra Swallowtail, and Spicebush 
> and Sassafras for the Spicebush Swallowtail, and dill and parsley for 
> the Black Swallowtail.
> Cathy
> On Sunday, June 27, 2004, at 08:22 PM, Donna wrote:
> 
> > Butterflies are a species that needs certain plants and without them
> > they will not live to maturity.
> >
> > If the plants in your area are either early or late rather than normal
> > growth times, the butterflies will also be.
> >
> > Many are also host plant dominate. Monarch have to have some type of
> > butterfly weed.. they need the leaves while in the caterpillar stage 
> > and
> > the nectar when butterflies. I will not have any this year since none 
> > of
> > my leaves are damaged. Not sure what happened last fall, but obviously
> > something.
> >
> > The Karner blue has to have a lupine plant. Three years ago (?) this
> > butterfly was down to 500. We started growing 5,000 lupines each year
> > and reintroducing them also the Indiana Dunes area as part of
> > restoration project along with the nature conservancy. Happy to report
> > that we now have thousands of the karners!. At one point they caught 50
> > of them and set up a tent inside the nature center ( with the correct
> > permit to do this!)Increased the population with no natural predators
> > there and then released them back into the wild... just gave old ma
> > nature a helping hand.
> >
> > Donna
> 
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