I went to pick parsley last night and discovered that someone had been there before me – in fact a contented gathering of the beautiful green and black “caterpillars” of the black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polyxenes, was happily feasting on my kitchen door pot of parsley. These lovely larvae require a meal on members of the carrot family in order to complete their development and have adopted Dill and Parsley, neither of them native to North America, as tasty additions to their diet. So now I’ll have to remember to plant a lot of extra parsley for the larvae, as well as lettuce for the rabbits and everything else for the wood-chuck.Read Liz's blogRead Meg's blog
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