Hi Becky,
You could be right..To a non "butterfly educated" person like me they look
very similar to a monarch..At least in color..They would lay the eggs on the
leaves and the catapillers look like ones I found on a web search..Boy they
could do a job on that poor Passion vine...Mine faced north and bloomed very
well....Thanks for the heads up on the species!!!
John


"Becky" wrote in message
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They're probably Gulf Fritillary butterflies that are laying eggs on your
passion vine. That's one of their host plants. I have one and it's
covered
in butterflies & caterpillars all summer. It has very few flowers though
because it doesn't get enough light, but butterflies need to eat too.


"John" wrote in message
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Hey Katra,
Very pretty! I had a huge Passion vine at our old house in
Austin..Covered
half a wall of the house..Only thing the Monarch butterfly's lay their
eggs
on them and their babies just about eat it to death..Guess passion vine
is
one of their favorite things..I think ours was the standard non edible
one
though as it never fruited..But the blossoms were very deep purple..And
the
smell..WOW! Darn thing came up everywhere like a trumpet vine..Even had
a
sprout come up in our sunroom between the slab expansion joints. Was very
wierd..Did fine year after year till the guys who repaired our foundation
just HAD to put a pier right where it was..That indeed did kill it :-(
John


"Katra" wrote in message
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I planted two little passion flower vines last summer.
They did well over the winter and I got my very first bloom about a
week
ago:

http://home.centurytel.net/Katraslin...ionFlower2.jpg

I think this one is Passiflora caerulea and I've since done some
googling on passion flowers. There are a HUGE number of species of this
beautiful thing and I'm considering looking for more edible species
(Incarnata and edulis).

Anyone know where I could get those two species locally???

--
K.

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