Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Who is this....and look what they've done to my parsley!!!, 1 by Hineni

Hineni wrote:
Yay on the new homes! I found 8 1st and 2nd instar EBS cats on my newly transplanted parsley (with only 3 stems) - and they had made short shrift of that. So I moved most of them to my neighbor's huge parsley patch and then took a few up front to my fennel plant. I never knew they had little orange horns that came out when you mess with them...LOL! I don't usually touch them, just watch them. But they were so isolated out in the back that I was afraid they'd starve without another host plant nearby. The relocated ones seem to be happily munching away on the fennel today.

I wonder sometimes if 'intervening' in the natural life process is wrong in some way (like feeding hummers sugar water)...but when I consider what we've done to the planet and natural habitats, it seems to justify helping out somewhat. Anway, I've never heard of butterfly or hummer "infestations"...(grin)

Thanks for letting us know how they did mini!

~Sunny