Congrats, Edna, they're gorgeous butterflies, especially the newly emerged males - they're very dark orange/red, and from a distance they look red. The cats are very easy to raise, go through their instars quickly, especially on P. incarnata. You should notify whoever you're supposed to notify to add them to your county listing! Sherry

They are indeed beautiful! I still remember the first time I saw one and it was now many years ago because it was the first or second year into the butterfly gardening. I am sorry to say though that the pics I took were very blurry. I was in a hurry because i was afraid it would take off and the only thing about the shots is that they at least prove that it was a GF. I didn't see it again today but it might have been out there anyway because it was sooo hot outside that I couldn't take it myself. I heard a little girl walking by say to her mother, "Mommy, there are a ton of butterflies here." I was very happy to hear that. Murray

I normally leave them alone--once the vines are stripped, the butterflies stop laying eggs and the caterpillar population goes into steep decline. After a few weeks, the vines will recover and leaf out again. By then, fall is just around the corner and butterflies/caterpillars aren't much of an issue. They'll eat incarnata and incarnata hybrids happily, and also eat caerulea and caerulea hybrids if the former isn't available. Pure red passiflora species, such as coccinea and vitifolia are unsuitable as Gulf frit hosts, and although caterpillars will munch on them, they never survive to maturity. If you must control the caterpillar populations (and boy, they've ticked me off to no end at times--particularly when they girdle branches) your best bet would be to go with BT. That's an organic bacteria that kills caterpillars but leaves other insects alone. It has a low impact on the environment and is favored by green gardeners.

There is conflicting "information" about President Obama's birth certificate. Both in that and in the case of GF migration, it is not terribly difficult, in that it is a matter of whom ya gonna believe. If you have good reason to be skeptical of information emanating from UF Dept of Entomology, then maybe we all should doubt the competency of that authority. The GF migration into my yard every fall is another piece of conflicting information to add.