You lucky duck you! :) I haven't had a single variegated frit caterpillar in two years!
Congratulations on the egg and the picture, Anna!
Sherry

Good timing Anna! Did you go back out and try to find the leaf?

I've seen one this year, but no eggs. I love the pupa of this butterfly.

Oh heavens, no! My butterfly meadow is an acre or more and right now it's covered in passiflora. I have been looking, but not finding.

Anna

I raised/am raising 18 of these this year. Most of them have eclosed over the past week or so, though I still have one caterpillar. They did a wonderful job of decimating and destroying this year's viola crop! Unfortunately, they have mostly shunned the violets I have planted for them.
Anyone know of good resources to help with caterpillar obedience training?
-Jmcat

Congrats, Anna! I have not seen any VFs for 2 or 3 years either, MissSherry. I finally got my P. incarnata in the ground last month, and it has really taken off, altho still relatively small - about 3'. But, wouldn't you know, now I am seeing some of my P. 'Lavendar Lady' coming up in a couple different spots around the original planting area - which is exactly where I decided to plant the incarnata. Cannot believe this turn of events.

Anyway, I do hope that the incarnata will entice the VFs to return and lay eggs one day.

Susan

Feast or famine. Euptoieta claudia seems to be all I see some days.