Posted by balvenieman on June 28, 2010, 12:48 pm
Picked up the camera on my way back with the scissors Friday:
http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad307/balvenieman/stuff/summerguest1.jpg
Yesterday, there were 8; today, 6 remain.
They have done a number on the parsely. Boy, will the
only-neighbor-who-cooks be surprised next time she makes tabouli!
How long will they continue to eat? I only have the one parsley.
I'm not going to have to buy them a plant of their own, am I?
--
the Balvenieman
USDA zone 9b, peninsular Florida, U.S.A.
Posted by David Hare-Scott on June 28, 2010, 7:27 pm
balvenieman@invalid.net wrote:
> Picked up the camera on my way back with the scissors Friday:
> http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad307/balvenieman/stuff/summerguest1.jpg
> Yesterday, there were 8; today, 6 remain.
> They have done a number on the parsely. Boy, will the
> only-neighbor-who-cooks be surprised next time she makes tabouli!
> How long will they continue to eat? I only have the one parsley.
> I'm not going to have to buy them a plant of their own, am I?
They will continue to eat until a predator gets them, they run out of food
or metamorphose. I suggest that you choose option one and use that old
organic grubicide: treadonem.
David
Posted by balvenieman on June 28, 2010, 9:05 pm
>I suggest that you choose option one and use that old
>organic grubicide: treadonem.
Nah; nearest I can come to I.D. is black swallowtail, a native
North American flutterby. I don't begrudge them a grocery store parsley,
which will recover unless they just eat it all. Guess I need to study
the life cycle to determine whether they're going to pupate in the
container soil.
Posted by phorbin on June 29, 2010, 9:07 am
balvenieman@invalid.net says...
>
>
> >I suggest that you choose option one and use that old
> >organic grubicide: treadonem.
> Nah; nearest I can come to I.D. is black swallowtail, a native
> North American flutterby. I don't begrudge them a grocery store parsley,
> which will recover unless they just eat it all. Guess I need to study
> the life cycle to determine whether they're going to pupate in the
> container soil.
We grow rue for the swallowtails.
Posted by Suzanne D. on June 29, 2010, 12:14 pm
> Nah; nearest I can come to I.D. is black swallowtail, a native
> North American flutterby.
Yeah, definitely a swallowtail. I'd suggest relocating it to a sacrificial
parsley plant away from the main garden.
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> http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad307/balvenieman/stuff/summerguest1.jpg
> Yesterday, there were 8; today, 6 remain.
> They have done a number on the parsely. Boy, will the
> only-neighbor-who-cooks be surprised next time she makes tabouli!
> How long will they continue to eat? I only have the one parsley.
> I'm not going to have to buy them a plant of their own, am I?