As I was walking around and looking at my various garden boxes ... I notice my two curled leaf parsley plants which were bolting nicely will not be giving me seeds. The swallowtail caterpillars have found them, and hubby and I counted fifteen caterpillars on the two plants! Hubby had to come out and see this. I must admit, it is impressive in a flower-stripping way.
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| there are fifteen swallowtail caterpillars stripping my curled parsley bolts |
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| close up of the biggest swallowtail caterpillars |
Hubby commented it is good for the caterpillars that we now know what they are ... meanwhile I was thinking how lucky they are I know the chickens don't like the taste of them. I had wanted seeds from these parsley plants! They have been healthy and contributing fresh parsley leaves to our meals for almost two years now. *Sigh.*
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Just think of all the beautiful black swallowtail butterflies you'll have before long. :-)
The adults are still fluttering around, along with other species of butterflies. I was really looking forward to getting seeds from those two parsley plants.
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