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paulgrow Allen Park, MI(Zone 6a) Jul 08, 2006

Is this a butterfly larve?
I've 3 or 4 on my fennel.

I've quite a few yellow and black butterflies around the yard.

Paul

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Poochella Issaquah, WA(Zone 7a) Jul 08, 2006

I think it's a Black Swallowtail caterpillar and cool looking at that.
http://www.javajane.co.uk/Smooth/slides/black_swallowtail2.html

A lot more caterpillars/photos are here
http://www.whatsthiscaterpillar.co.uk/

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Zeppy Shenandoah Valley, VA(Zone 6b) Jul 08, 2006

They're lovely. Also called parsleyworm. Wish I had more...

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trackinsand mid central, FL(Zone 9a) Jul 08, 2006

fennel is a host plant! lucky you!

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Zeppy Shenandoah Valley, VA(Zone 6b) Jul 08, 2006

Fennel, parsley, carrot, and wild carrot (Queen Anne's Lace)... we try to grow extras of all these for the butterflies.

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dun1kirk Berkeley, CA(Zone 9a) Jul 28, 2006

So, I'm in a quandry. The butterfly is beautiful, but the caterpillars are eating through EVERYTHING!
What to do, what to do?

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Zeppy Shenandoah Valley, VA(Zone 6b) Jul 28, 2006

You might be able to transfer them to Queen Anne's Lace growing wild (if you have some). I'm not sure. Let me check. I certainly can understand you not wanting all your plants eaten up...

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Night_Bloom Griffin, GA(Zone 8a) Jul 29, 2006

Zeppy, unfortunately these guys are picky. They only like to eat what they started out eating. I had a bunch on my bronze fennel a couple of years ago, and was afraid they wouldn't have enough to eat (lots of caterpillars, rapidly diminishing plants). Right nearby I had perfectly good parsely, but not only weren't there any on the parsely, any caterpillars that I tried to move to the parsely went right back to the fennel.

Picky little bugs, they are.

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Zeppy Shenandoah Valley, VA(Zone 6b) Jul 29, 2006

Yeah, I seem to remember that happening with carrots last year. Oh, well.

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