Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Bring in GF cats?, 0 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
We are waiting for our first hard freeze on Wed. night and while I was "preparing" by mulching and watering I saw a tired and weak mama GF laying eggs on my beaten up vine! I kept telling her that it was going to freeze and not to lay on that vine but she did anyways.

I could only find 2 of the eggs. Will the eggs freeze? I'm not going to worry about them but do need to collect vine for the cats I still have inside. I can't remember, will my vine bite the dust with the first freeze?

My neighbor's vine is covered in cats now, so should I collect them and bring them inside? I'm asking, but I'm sure I will but I could have a food shortage if the vine dies. That would be bad but most of hers are large and could pupate early.

On a previous thread we talked about how the GF would just lay eggs anywhere near the vine and if she did that on purpose. I don't think so. I think the vine has a really strong scent and she just gets close to it. This one was struggling against wind and her age and was doing all she could to just lay the eggs. If she landed near the vine, be it on the fence or a stick, she laid it. If she landed on a stick of Goldenrod she would fly off. She didn't appear to be making a conscious decision, as in protecting them, or she would have laid on the greener vine next to it!