Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Pics of Butterflies Pg2, 4-28-07, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
I'm so glad you told me about the wasps. Now I have another reason to go after them. You see, I had a huge mess of invasive plants in the backyard that I turned into my bromeliad garden. I left a huge palmetto there, and apparently it had wasp nests all in it. One day I was tying a billbergia to the palmetto trunk and I guess I disturbed thier nest because one of them got me. I had a red spot that hurt for two weeks! Since then I make sure I have a constant supply of wasp killer (just bought some yesterday, in fact). My Dad's shed out back also has a few nests on it. And for some reason. they like my bedroom window. I'll have to be extra vigilant.

Speaking of cages, when I was at Selby Gardens in Sarasota (bromeliad show and sale) I was wandering around and saw that they were raising caterpillars in a display cage. Check it out!