Re: Re: Butterfly population

Oh I have seen those indeed, just never knew what they were. What are
the ones that look like little baby monarchs that love privet so much??


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: cathy carpenter
Sent: 6/28/2004 1:54:46 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Butterfly population

> They are actually much more common in your neck of the woods than mine. 
> Try this site for a photo, but they are way cuter than that!
> http://wisconsinbutterflies.org/species/157
> They are almost exclusively dependent on the hackberry as a host plant.
> Cathy
> On Monday, June 28, 2004, at 11:43 AM, "" 
> <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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