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I was reading thru the "Florida Grower" and Agricultural magazine and they had an article about "benefical wasps". Well, benifical to who, as the citrus growers release them to kill off "pests", ie butterfly larva, such as the Giant Swallowtails that lay their eggs on citrus.
They were advising on plants that attracted these "benefical wasps" (that eat butterfly caterpillars ! ) and many of us have these very same plants in our gardens.
Sunflowers and Herb, especially Dill, Fennel, and Cilantro, provide nectar/pollen that attract these wasps.
Course the Eastern Black Swallowtails use the Dill/Fennel and Parsley as their host plants. I think these may be why I suddenly lost over 25 BST cat's in what seemed a day! I think they will be coming in as soon as I see the eggs next time. I just had about 15 but didn't have much Dill/Fennel, they did all get pretty big as I've hidden the pots under some shrubs as soon as I saw the eggs.
And Sunflowers, well, we're really thinking hard about planting them again. We had about 35 Giant Sunflowers this year and have been drying the heads for the seeds to feed to the birds.
And I won't be keeping Dill/Fennel near my milkweed again!
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