Blenheim / Woodbourne / 2005-11-20 16:45:00
I have had numerous amounts of butterflys come to lay more eggs on my already bear swan plants.
I have lost 5 plants this year for no apparent reason. They have just started to shrivel and eventualy completly die off so have been very short on food. I counted 87 catterpillars on one medium plant at one stage and am now feeding 30 cattipillars on pumkin in the hope to get them to survive. Although I have had a large amount of cattipillers this year I have not had so many make it to butterflies.
- City/Region: Blenheim
- Suburb: Woodbourne
- Site: home garden
- Trees: swan plants
- Weather: Fine with little wind
