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starsplitter7
Tampa, FL
(Zone 9b)

June 12, 2009
09:57 PM

Post #6680404

Look who emerged this morning. She was still drying her wings as I was watering my garden. I moved her to a safe location and continued watering. Excuse my dirty nails.

She's a girl. If she was a boy, he would have a black dot in the middle of the second black line which is a scent gland.

She is worth my milkweed being eaten into nubs into the ground every year. The plants seed profusely, and I dig up the seedlings, and plant them together, so the caterpillars can change plants as they need to. After the butterflies emerge, the milkweed comes back with a vengance -- bushier than ever.

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