Look close! Can you spot the shelter?
Chris Herz reports on a neat addition to her yard list — wild indigo duskywing caterpillars.
“I just planted the wild indigo last fall (three small plants) after purchasing them at Clemenson Farms Native Plant Nursery in Estell Manor. The eggs were tiny and you had to look with a lens to see when they opened. Then I noticed the leaf shelters and found three caterpillars.”
A young wild indigo duskywing caterpillar emerges from hiding on August 10 in
Chris Herz’s garden in Audubon (CAM)
How many other kinds of naturalists can have such a direct positive effect on the organisms they pursue?
Keep at it, all your butterfly gardeners out there!
jc