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OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
"My guess would be baby swallowtail butterflies. :-)"

http://www.earthfuture.com/gardenpat...il%20larva.jpg

I, too have seen the larva on my dill and parsley. Easy to control by
hand-picking.

Those larvae are so beautiful, I would never pick them off! If you tap them
gently on the head, their orange sense organ will shoot out like a
tongue--it's fun to tell children you've trained them to do this.


I did pick them off of my dill as I did not have that much...

but I did it gently and moved them to the parsley (since I had plenty
and did not have much use for it) and the fennel on the end of the herb
garden as I have _no_ use for fennel. G The fennel was planted
entirely for the baby swallowtails. It seems to last them longer.
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Peace!
Om

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