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Everything you wanted to know about Butterflies, but didn’t know who to ask.

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On Tuesday this week, our staff entomologist, Bill Reynolds, will present an on-line presentation exploring the amazing world of Butterflies and Moths. Bill, who in his previously life, worked as an entomologist for the NC Museum of Natural Science, has spent a lifetime traveling the world to study butterflies. Bill not only has an encyclopedic

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Aristolochia watsonii

My Dear Watson, You make a Good Snack

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Our patch of the Texas native pipevine, Aristolochia watsonii is home this week to some very happy, and very voracious pipevine swallowtail caterpillars. Although the plant will soon be defoliated, it’s designed as such, and will quickly reflush with new foliage once the caterpillars have molted. We love the color combination of the bronze leaves

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Pipevines – A weirdo that you and your swallowtails can’t live without.

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by Patrick McMillan The past couple of weeks the small, freakish flowers of one of the strangest of plants have begun to open in our gardens – pipevines. It’s difficult to believe that nature could summon up anything as strange as the flowers of pipevines. If you remember the “regular” aka actinomorphic and the “irregular”

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Plundering Pipes

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The Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly caterpillars are munching away on any aristolochia (pipevine) in sight. This week, their favorite in the garden is the stunning Aristolochia fimbriata. Nature has created a wonderful balance where the catepillars each just enough to survive and grow, but not enough to damage the plant, which will quickly re-flush.

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