Hi AJ and dad! Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your garden adventure, I very much enjoyed watching definitely! Hope you have continued to provide food and shelter for these beautiful butterflies! If so, keep posting please!
Thanks for watching and commenting! We do indeed strive to maintain a robust butterfly garden that attracts many species including Monarch, Giant Swallowtail, Viceroy, Queen, Cabbage White, Southern White, Gulf Fritillary, Variegated Fritillary, and the Zebra Longwing among others. We get a lot of enjoyment from it and we’ll continue to post.
I just purchased a passion vine from a garden centre and noticed gulf fritillary eggs and larvae on their passion vines for sale. I asked the people working there if I could take some eggs and larvae and they said yes. Glad to be starting raising gulf Frits as I’ve always wanted to due to them being quite exotic. AJ reminds me a lot like myself on how I could go up to a plant and find signs of caterpillars and the caterpillars themselves. Raising larvae can be both easy and hard. I always have a huge stockpile of leaves picked for my caterpillars so when they need more I can supply them with them if need be. Also I used plastic containers to raise mine in, kinda like a caterpillar high rise.
Yeah similar I just bought a passion vine from a nursery and they said "look there yours comes with a caterpillar." One of the ladies asked if I wanted one from another plant and I said yes. They're cool with helping customers start the life cycle.
Hi AJ and dad! Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your garden adventure, I very much enjoyed watching definitely!
Hope you have continued to provide food and shelter for these beautiful butterflies! If so, keep posting please!
Thanks for watching and commenting! We do indeed strive to maintain a robust butterfly garden that attracts many species including Monarch, Giant Swallowtail, Viceroy, Queen, Cabbage White, Southern White, Gulf Fritillary, Variegated Fritillary, and the Zebra Longwing among others. We get a lot of enjoyment from it and we’ll continue to post.
I learned so much from you AJ!! Thank you
I just purchased a passion vine from a garden centre and noticed gulf fritillary eggs and larvae on their passion vines for sale. I asked the people working there if I could take some eggs and larvae and they said yes. Glad to be starting raising gulf Frits as I’ve always wanted to due to them being quite exotic. AJ reminds me a lot like myself on how I could go up to a plant and find signs of caterpillars and the caterpillars themselves. Raising larvae can be both easy and hard. I always have a huge stockpile of leaves picked for my caterpillars so when they need more I can supply them with them if need be. Also I used plastic containers to raise mine in, kinda like a caterpillar high rise.
Yeah similar I just bought a passion vine from a nursery and they said "look there yours comes with a caterpillar." One of the ladies asked if I wanted one from another plant and I said yes. They're cool with helping customers start the life cycle.
Excellent job AJ
Thanks for watching and commenting! Thanks for the kind words- AJ