If it was permitted, I'd tell you to send some along black swallowtail eggs my way - I've got 3 big fronze fennels, dill, and parsley waiting for them, but they are so rude and haven't come to eat - don't they know dinner is waiting?!
You all may get a kick out of this --- so I collected an "egg" that I was hoping was Spicebush off a tree I thought was sassafras - Mellie pointed out she didn't think the tree was sassafras, and she was so right - it was an oak tree. Went on a nice field trip with the Georgia native plant society to help learn tree ids, and now I can (hopefully) tell an oak from a sassafras. Anyway - I was curious - so I kept the egg. It was darkening, it didn't seem like a dud....so I check it, the egg is clear, it's hatched. I look and look and I finally find the bug that hatched - this is not my pic (didn't have camera handy), but it looked like this:
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I freed it and let it go on its way.
My most recent butterfly visitors were skippers, silver spotted and whirlabout. My sole spicebush cat, appears to be ok, but I would have thought he or she would be green by now. Still looks like birdpoop.
