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Jul 1, 2006 4:42 pm
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please remove me from this list. _rubyebill77@..._ (mailto:rubyebill77@...) - thank you.... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
rubyebill77@...
Jul 1, 2006 9:01 pm
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I need some advice. I have dozens and dozens of minute orange bugs with black legs, on each of my milkweed. Some are on the stems, some on the underleaves....
I should have noted that these plants with the bugs are growing inside an enclosure and aren't open to bugs from the outside. Which makes it even more...
Rosita It's sounds like you have the perfect butterfly garden! Do you have a digital camera to post some photos? What are your most popular nectar plants? The...
Denise and All, I have not learned how to post pictures on the net. Basicly I'm computer illiterate and only use it for e-mails and the group. Yesterday I had...
rrsmith26@...
Jul 3, 2006 7:38 pm
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How, or where, does a spicebush caterpillar usually make a chrysalis? I have one in an aquarium and it keeps wandering around and around. I have two sticks...
I don't know where they go to pupate in the wild. In the screened-in cages I have outside, they pupated on the welded-wire cage, not the plants, sticks or...
They use a variety of places to pupate. When I put the whole pot of spicebush in a mesh pop-up hamper/cage, they will pupate under a leaf. Some pupate on...
Help! A friend who has a butterfly garden is having a problem with bull ants all over two of her cassia plants. I think they are called bull ants, they are...
Thanks Ginger and Linda, for your input on the spicebush cat. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter for the first one because it died this morning. I have...
Poor Cats! Spraying is terrible. I know what that is like. Here government regulates that all schools be sprayed at least twice a year to avoid bugs that...
Carol, I'm so sorry about the little cat! It can be discouraging sometimes losing cats. Out of the group of Queen cats I'm raising now two of them had died...
I find it interesting that the monarchs here in Naples FL prefer butterfly weed to lay eggs on whereas in Delaware (my former home) they preferred parsley. In...
Hi Denise, While larval foods of a particular type of butterfly like the Monarch may vary geographically depending on available plant species and occasionally...
My monarch cats in SW Wisconsin like the cinderella milkweed best, they will eat the southern and the roadside regular, but they wander much more. My BST loved...
Here in northwest SC, the Monarchs do not use the Butterfly Weed (A. tuberosa) in my gardens. The do love the Tropical (Asclepias curassavica) Common and...
Larry You may be right. Just because I never saw a black swallowtail doesn't mean it wasn't responsible for the cats on the parsley.(I worked full time in...
Question for all of you...I have discovered my "snow on the mountain", or "blushing bush" (don't know the latin name) covered with catapillers/grubs. They...
Hi Leah, It's a moth, not a butterfly, but a mighty pretty one. Check this out: http://okeechobee.ifas.ufl.edu/news%20columns/snow%20bush.htm Larry Rosen ...
Hi Leah, Don't fret!! I had the same question about a month ago. What you see are caterpillars for the white tipped black moth, which is a day flying moth...
The BST and the Monarch cats, sure do look similar. Many people make that mistake, but one of these days who knows Monarchs may start using parsley. There...
THANKS !!! I have been searching all over for that info on my plant....even called Lowes, and talked to the "gardening expert", who told me it was Monarch or...
Hi Leah and all, No. There is no way in creation that a Monarch would eat pumpkin. There must have been mistake in the observer's observation. Richard James ...
Hi Richard and all, I googled it and found the following link, with pix, from New Zealand. It is a 4th-instar phenomenon and still very anecdotal, and I don't...
I am currently growing Baltimore Checkerspots and in New England they have changed over to English Plantain as their primary host plant. The ones in Maryland...
Hi Mona, Could you please restate that? I am not understanding your point about "changing over." Could it be a case of mistaken identity? The Common...
It is not a mistaken identify, this has been going on now for several years. But, what I should have said is that are using both in parts of New English....
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