A few months hiatus from gardening and writing a post. Monday while Vickie pulled errant bindweed and I pruned back going to seed annuals, we were rewarded with the most spectacular viewing: Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars,
a pupating Pipevine Swallowtail
A month or so ago on a warm, sunny day I saw a Pipevine Swallowtail hovering about the native Pipevine. A few days later I searched for the black dots of recentlylaid eggs, not finding any. But she obviously did lay her mirade of eggs.
I just could not find them in the tangles of California Pipevine.
This just awesome sight of Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars and pupae just blew us all away. It has been a few years
since we have been treated to Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies in the making.
I just could not find them in the tangles of California Pipevine.
This just awesome sight of Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillars and pupae just blew us all away. It has been a few years
since we have been treated to Pipevine Swallowtail butterflies in the making.
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