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Hi

RE:

>I have hanging baskets with liccorish
>(spelling?) as a trailing plant. The ends are being attached and
curled
>up in a web by something I cannot locate.

THis is probably Helichrysum petiolare, which I grow and love.  This
last year at a butterfly lecture (well, garden lecture that included
attracting butterflies to your garden) it was pointed out that this
webbing, curling was from the early stage of a particular butterfly
that I cannot remember at the moment...  but it was important enough
to me to mentally note not to destroy it.  So I now take of the
pieces affected and put them somewhere else to give the food to the
butterfly.  What is that wormy thing, the lavae stage?  It might have
been the same one that is on the parsley, the Swallowtail Butterfly.
I always plant extra parsley for it too!  what would our gardens be
without butterflies?

Bobbie B in MA
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