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May 1, 2016 8:15 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
I hope I'm posting this on the right forum. Lots of smart people on here. My Passiflora 'Lavender Lady' is currently covered in Gulf Fritillary caterpillars which is great. I noticed one yesterday that looked like it was leftover molted skin. I had seen a caterpillar in that same spot the day before so it made sense. On closer inspection, I noticed it was not the molted skin, but that the caterpillar was indeed dead. And there was an odd, white egg-shaped thing attached to the same leaf right in front of the corpse. Not wanting anything to proliferate and kill more caterpillars, I picked the leaf, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it. I looked, and there were some little black specks in the "egg", but nothing I could identify as being a bug or anything. So...does this look familiar to anyone?

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