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Osmeterium Harmful to Touch?

Hello, First let me compliment you on your site. You've got some great info. I have two questions for you. Regarding the osmeterium on the black swallowtail

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Monarchs in Salt Lake City Utah

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. I see common milkweed in many places growing wild but rarely find Monarch caterpillars on them. Is our climate too cold

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Cold Weather

I live in South Florida, We are having a chilly winter. I have 6 chrysalis, that don't look normal. Sometimes they are on the side of the house instead

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Where have all my caterpillars gone?

This morning we had up to 20 caterpillars of various sizes, esp 2 big ones almost ready to pupate, but when we came home this afternoon we could only find

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Milkweed harmful to birds and children?

Somewhere on your site you mention most animals not liking the taste of milkweed (the toxins) - but that cardinals love it. Due to a neighbor's bird feeder

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Chrysalis found on the Ground Down and Doomed?

We Central Californians have had very rainy and windy weather recently and I just found a crysalis on the ground between two paving stones near the

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The Monarch Butterfly

Monarch butterflies are the most beautiful of all butterflies, some say, and are considered the “king” of the butterflies, hence the name “monarch”.

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Care of Milkweed Plants

The caterpillars have nearly stripped my scarlet milkweed plants of their leaves. Should I cut the plants back now or just leave them as they are.

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Black Swallowtail Butterfly Emerges in Winter

We found a black swallowtail caterpillar in our garden last fall and put it in a jar to see if we could watch it go through it's change. It just

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Something to bring me joy...

My mom died in June 09 from cancer, and although I found it difficult to speak at her graveside service I did so anyhow. When I was done a lady came

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New Butterflies Unsteady

Hi, We are having an unusually cold Winter here in Central Florida, so we took in a few Monarchs: a newly emerged butterfly, a chrysalis from which a

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Monarch on its way to Mexico

At Allen Acres in Louisiana, we get a few monarch in late March but all have gone north by the end of April. They return in Sept and hang around to

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Tiger Swallowtail "Hold That Tiger"

We usually have several of these throughout the year as we have toothache trees, hopwafer trees, and citrus trees for the caterpillars. This photo

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Gulf Fritillary

A very common butterfly in our gardens at Allen Acres from July to

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