Growing a Bumper Crop of Butterflies
June 16, 2011By Mike Weilbacher, Executive Director
I love it when a plan works: walking up the back steps at my home this week, I glanced at the large pots where we keep our kitchen garden. What caught my eye was a bump on the end of a sprig of dill: a hunchbacked but handsomely striped insect, the unmistakable caterpillar of the black swallowtail, one of our largest, most striking butterflies.
But wait! A smaller lump below the caterpillar on another leaf was actually a second one. Then I spotted a third. Wait, there are six. No ten. Omigosh: I am the…
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June 7, 2011Hello friends of nature and conservation!
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