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Old 28-07-2011, 03:52 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Bert Hyman Bert Hyman is offline
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Default I really hate bugs

In Boron Elgar
wrote:

Last year I caught this swallowtail caterpillar devouring my dill.
Note carefully the tiny critter afflicting my destroyer. You can see
it about half way down the "spine".

http://i54.tinypic.com/2whnj1j.jpg

Still, this caterpillar was so beautiful it was difficult to hate it,
even though it took out a lot of dill.


We found one munching on one of our parsley plants a couple of years ago
and moved it to another less important plan in the garden.

But when I looked it up and read that the parsley was the only plant we
had that it would eat, we found it and put it back.

There was only one caterpillar and we had a lot of parsley.

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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN