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re: What kind of caterpillar is this?
Posted on 6/7/24 at 8:06 pm to TigerTatorTots
Posted on 6/7/24 at 8:06 pm to TigerTatorTots
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Does this make good privacy foliage on a iron fence? I'm in the market for something to plant along my iron fence that would provide a bit of privacy of the backyard
It could be a possibility, but I don't think it really grows that thick. Plus, if/when the butterflies find it they could very well strip it.
I have an Autumn Clematis screening one end and part of a side of my back porch. It isn't a native species, but pollinators love it. There are native species of Clematis that could do the trick, but they may be too aggressively growing for your liking. Virgin's Bower, or Clematis Virginiana, is the native species. It has loads of blooms later in the season and is somewhat evergreen in some zones.
Clematis virginiana
ETA: It smells amazing when in bloom.
This post was edited on 6/7/24 at 8:07 pm
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Posted on 6/7/24 at 9:14 pm to TeddyPadillac
I literally just went outside to look at my vegetables and saw this exact caterpiller on my dying dill plant.
Cut off the dill and put him in a bug box so we can watch it transform.
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Gotta keep feeding him. Wet the vegetation too
Put a stick in cage so he can climb and later hang from.
I grow Giant swallowtails all the time. Host plant is Meyer lemon
Cut off the dill and put him in a bug box so we can watch it transform.
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Gotta keep feeding him. Wet the vegetation too
Put a stick in cage so he can climb and later hang from.
I grow Giant swallowtails all the time. Host plant is Meyer lemon
Posted on 6/8/24 at 8:33 am to TigerTatorTots
These things grow so fast. Anyone know what that small black one is?
This post was edited on 6/8/24 at 8:34 am
Posted on 6/8/24 at 12:00 pm to TigerTatorTots
That is a baby black swallowtail caterpillar.
For passionflower vine and it being part of a privacy set up. It could on year two be quite thick. But as another poster mentioned, if enough butterflies find your plant (and they will), they could strip it. Also, it will die off in the winter, but come back 2x-3x times. I have it planted with my confederate jasmine, and I have an 8 foot fence with trellis that makes a greenery wall along my side fence.
For passionflower vine and it being part of a privacy set up. It could on year two be quite thick. But as another poster mentioned, if enough butterflies find your plant (and they will), they could strip it. Also, it will die off in the winter, but come back 2x-3x times. I have it planted with my confederate jasmine, and I have an 8 foot fence with trellis that makes a greenery wall along my side fence.
Posted on 6/8/24 at 1:37 pm to TigerTatorTots
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These things grow so fast.
Yeah they do! And when you realize that most species start out around the size of the sharpened portion of a pencil lead, or smaller, you really begin to appreciate their growth.
I don't know what species these are, maybe a moth, but they were on an oak.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 1:57 pm to LegendInMyMind
Their new home, I have somewhere between 10-12 of them in here in a wide range of sizes. There must have been some eggs bc I only intentionally picked out 5 for the jar initially but I counted 10 crawling around the other day
Posted on 6/17/24 at 7:34 pm to TigerTatorTots
Update: 8 of the 10 caterpillars died. I must have had over spray on the parsley I fed them from the BT I sprayed on my tomatoes. 1 made it to cocoon. The other looks like it’s about to cocoon.
And wtf are these ugly things on the citrus, they won’t touch the parsley
And wtf are these ugly things on the citrus, they won’t touch the parsley
Posted on 6/17/24 at 7:51 pm to TigerTatorTots
Those are the swallowtail caterpillars. They look like bird poop
Posted on 6/17/24 at 8:14 pm to luvdoc
The green ones are swallow tails as well. Different type of swallowtail?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 11:53 am to TigerTatorTots
The bird poop looking ones are Eastern Giant Swallowtails. They have different host plants that the Black Swallowtails you have. You have some citrus in there, but you need to make sure to keep some in there for them because they may not eat the other plants that the Black Swallowtails eat.
Pretty cool setup you have going!
Pretty cool setup you have going!
Posted on 6/18/24 at 12:34 pm to LegendInMyMind
Yea I found the green ones on the parsley and the poop ones on the citrus so I keep changing out the parsley and citrus every couple of days to make sure they have a constant supply. There is no shortage of the poop ones - My citrus tree new growth is getting hammered right now but its a medium size tree and I'm willing to sacrifice some leaves to get a decent butterfly population around here
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