Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Eastern Black Swallowtail Caterpillar, 1 by ButterflyGardnr

ButterflyGardnr wrote:
My parsley is now toast, thanks to about a dozen black swallowtail cats. They hadn't touched it for almost a year, then all of a sudden, they were all over it! I just bought a fennel plant at the farmer's market two weeks ago. It had a cat on it at the time and a few eggs, which appear to have been eaten (either by the cat or possibly by ants or lizards). Here are two of the cats that were the beginning of the end for my parsley: