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Post by brownrexx on Jun 27, 2015 16:23:02 GMT -5
That's great. You are certainly doing your part to help the Monarchs!
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Post by claude on Jun 27, 2015 19:58:28 GMT -5
I haven't seen any monarchs yet this season. I saw a few painted ladies..but they seem so much smaller than in years past and a blk swallowtail. My milkweed smells so beautiful...a bit more intoxicating than honeysuckle...but that kind of scent. The blooms are covered with HONEYBEES! Happy, happy bees!
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Post by lisaann on Jun 30, 2015 17:09:04 GMT -5
So, What did I take a pic of on my marigolds? Whatever variety it is, It blends in very nice:
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Post by restless on Jun 30, 2015 18:14:42 GMT -5
I have cabbage white butterflies, sulpher butterflies, summer azure butterflies, and eastern swallowtail butterflies around my yard. There is also a butterfly I have been seeing lately that I can't identify. It's mostly black with some orange and brown.
I plant extra parsley for swallowtail larva. I am usually enthralled by this point in the season with watching the caterpillars grow through their various instars. I watched a swallowtail female lay her eggs on my cutting celery in early June. I watched the cats hatch and grow pretty large in their first instars. Then birds picked them off. I haven't seen any caterpillars since, and I am sad about it.
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 3, 2015 19:35:18 GMT -5
It might be a Bronze Copper butterfly, or species thereof. It's so beautiful, blends right in with the marigolds!
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Post by claude on Jul 4, 2015 20:20:47 GMT -5
Saw my first Monarch on the milkweed! And a black one with a bright blue spot! It was so fast I couldn't get a good look.
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Post by OregonRed on Jul 5, 2015 10:21:12 GMT -5
I saw a cool large one at the Sat. Mkt. yester - didn't have my phone with me - it was hanging out at a booth with dahlia plants to sell - that were in bloom.
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Post by prunella on Jul 5, 2015 16:28:50 GMT -5
a black one with a bright blue spot! I saw this yesterday and immediately thought of a Pipevine Swallowtail. It's not likely, unless you happen to have a plant called Dutchman's Pipe in your garden. The plant is to the swallowtail what milkweed is to the Monarch. Meanwhile, I found a site that might interest you: it's called Gardens with Wings, It assists you in filtering your way through options to maybe find a name! Good luck.
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Post by claude on Jul 5, 2015 16:33:31 GMT -5
You posted it! I wonder..I have morning glories all along a fence and they have leaves just the same shape of the Dutchman pipe!
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 6, 2015 8:55:01 GMT -5
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 6, 2015 9:10:25 GMT -5
it's called Gardens with Wings [/a],[/quote]I tried that link and it kept coming back to this very same thread...tried 3x. That Pipevine Swallowtail is beautiful! Never seen one before. That link was great!
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Post by prunella on Jul 6, 2015 10:59:13 GMT -5
it kept coming back to this very same thread.. Pretty funny, right? Well, let's try this one: www.gardenswithwings.comI gotta slow down! Be more careful. I fixed the link, BTW. Thanks.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Jul 6, 2015 11:32:20 GMT -5
Well well that indeed did work! Thx
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Post by Mumsey on Jul 14, 2015 9:33:41 GMT -5
So now wondering if I have black swallowtail or pipevine swallowtail. Will have to pay closer attention when I see one. I did see a yellow swallowtail a couple days ago.
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Post by prunella on Jul 14, 2015 10:27:13 GMT -5
Well this is alarming! I just checked to see if they fly in Iowa? I found that it does, but here's the twist: The butterfly depends on a plant called Pipeline (Go figure!) and there is a species of Pipevine that grows in what I will generalize as "the south". If you didn't think Iowa is in the south, just understand that the list of states where Giant Pipevine grows is mostly southern but includes, yes, Iowa. Here is a page to tell about Aristolochia gigantea , a Pipevine species that kills the caterpillars. Similarly, there is one milkweed that kills Monarchs. Bottom line? The butterfly is typically found around the pipevine plant, so if you have some from a nursery and it's in bloom, good chance, The pipevine flowers look like old Dutch pipes, if you wondered.
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