Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Black Swallowtail emerged today, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
brigidlily! I usually check the site for Butterflies of North America first.. They have added a lot of new photos there, and there are several ways to search. I bought 2 bird books last year, and my son Ben, got the National Geographic one for Christmas... Now I need a few good Butterfly books, but this site really works well in a pinch.
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/gallery
Cat~ I got a Pawpaw, and it is a longshot, I know.... But maybe in a year or 2 I will see some ZSTs. I said this to say that I bought a metal butterfly from Walgreen's and it really bugged me...It was painted all kinds of pastel colors, and most of all not anatomically correct!!!! tsk tsk! The shape was closest to a ZST, though not perfect, (a-hem).
So I printed a good pic from the BFNA site and painted the dern thang... Now it hangs over the Pawpaw, and no longer buggs me.. ROFL!

Now back to the Black Swallowtails, hehe! Yes we got em! And plenty of Parsley.. Here it seems to be what they like best of all the host plants, even though I have Queen Anne's Lace, Fennel (bronze & green), and Rue. I wonder if it is a regional thing as to which of the many plants they use. They sometimes travel, but usually wind up back on the Parsley here.

Deb