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Posted by zxcvbob on July 8, 2008, 8:31 pm
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>> I found it yesterday on a volunteer dill plant that grew up
>> in the pole beans. I thought it was a Monarch; they look
>> very similar. Today it has almost doubled in size already,
>> and the dill plant is just about gone. I might need to
>> move it to another dill plant, or that 5 foot tall carrot
>> plant that is blooming. I don't know if they like to be
>> moved... It's not gonna eat my beans if I leave it alone
>> and it runs out of dill, will it? The beans would be a
>> nice protected place for it to pupate. It's odd that
>> there's just one.
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> it will prefer dill if it spent it's first couple instars on
> dill. it may eat the carrot (or Queen Anne's Lace), but i've
> found they really prefer the original food plant they started
> on. it won't touch your beans.
> swallowtails deposit eggs one at a time on several different
> plants in a 50-100' radius (maybe even wider. i am basing this
> on my observatios in my yard, which has a lot of swallowtail
> host plants). it's a good survival stratagy since only one
> caterpiller per food plant means they're both harder for
> predators to find & also likely to each have enough to eat.
> does your caterpiller have the stinky orange horns that pop
> out when touched?
> lee
I couldn't find him this afternoon. He's either moved on, or been eaten
by a bird. I looked on the nearby (very nearby) dill plants too.
Bob
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