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tedh:
Hi les!  Are they swallowtails?  I thought monarch caterpillers fed ONLY on milkweed but the coloring looked right.  Ted

riverbee:
monarch caterpillars do not feed on parsley, black swallowtail caterpillars do, i think these are black swallowtail caterpillars or also known as 'parsley caterpillars'.........we grow parsley, and have seen these on our plants in the past..... pretty cool!
quck google thing......
PARSLEY CATERPILLAR
No, that is not a Monarch caterpillar on your parsley plant.

also google 'black swallowtail caterpillar' images:

black swallowtail caterpillar images

great pix les, thank you!

black swallowtails are beautiful butterflies!

Jen:
Oooh How Cool Is That?

Thanks Riv!

Bakersdozen:
I hope a sheet thrown over the pot will work for today.  I leave for work about dawn and then I am going straight from work to do mite treatments on hives in the country.
Earlier this summer, I had caterpillars on my fennel.  They disappeared mysteriously during the day.

LazyBkpr:

--- Quote from: tedh on August 21, 2018, 10:09:38 pm ---Hi les!  Are they swallowtails?  I thought monarch caterpillers fed ONLY on milkweed but the coloring looked right.  Ted

--- End quote ---

   What Ted said.   I saw two Monarch caterpillars on milkweed this year. That is two more than I have seen in the past ten years.

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