Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: What are your Pipevine Swallowtails laying their eggs on?, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Becky,
You know the map for Indian River County doesn't have PVST even listed. How far is the closest county to list them, I wonder? oO~Looks~oO.... I see Brevard County seems to get them..Polydamas is the only ST listed for St. Lucie County. (The lists on the F&M NA must be shy on several of the counties.) I bet you will get PVST if you keep growing the A. tomentosa.. The blooms might get them to come, if not, maybe the Polydamas. Have you seen Polydamas in your yard yet?

LOL Adrienne, I'm confussed... What is the 'wooly' you have if it isn't A. tomentosa? It's the only one I have heard called that anyway. Do you have a pic of it?

Heres something nutty... Yours truely potted several different pipevines in one big pot... All of them 'are supposed' to be good hosts. I have stationed several kinds all around the yard. We'll see what happens when more female pvst's get here. Since the last batch of eggs, I'm just getting the males.

Y'all know how when Cassias bloom it attracts ovipositing females? Maybe Pipevines, with their strongly detectable scent, are the same way. The reason I say this is bc the A elegans is the only pv in my yard that has ever bloomed, and it is the only one that's had any eggs layed on it here. I think the blooming is very significant with many of the host plants.
Yep Don, I've sown seed over seed b4 and the older seed would come up, lol.. Your right to tell people to wait a little longer. :-). .. Sue, just give em a little more time.

:-Deb