This is so funny. I will print this out and give to an old chum for her to read at the doctor's office waiting room. She is very, very busy but, this will make everyone in the waiting room laugh. Time and a place for everything and this is a gift of laughter.

Asclepias--plants in the milkweed family BST--black swallowtail bidens--a group of flowers in the daisy family; attractive to butterflies BS--Black Swallowtail cat--caterpillar, the larva of a butterfly or moth comma--a type of butterfly cremaster--the 'stem' of a chrysalis eclose--the emerging of the adult butterfly from the chrysalis or pupa frass--caterpillar excrement, like bird droppings on a smaller scale frit--fritillary, a type of butterfly GF--gulf fritillary gregarious--Caterpillars having a tendency to group together or live in a colony GS, GST--giant swallowtail GSF--Great Spangled Fritillary hibernaculum--web enclosure made by hibernating caterpillars host--the specific plant a caterpillar eats HP--host plant id--identify, identification instar--a stage of caterpillar growth; the skin is then shed like a snake io--a type of moth ladies, lady--painted lady butterflies looper--a type of moth caterpillar LTS--long-tailed skipper meconium--fluid expelled by a butterfly or moth after eclosing NABA--North American Butterfly Association OE--Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, scientific name of parasitic spore harmful to Monarchs osmeterium--smelly protruding horns used by swallowtail caterpillars as a defense ovipositing--laying eggs peacock--a type of butterfly PL--painted lady butterfly pod--as in seed pod PVS--pipevine swallowtail queen--a type of butterfly question mark--a type of butterfly RSP--Red-spotted Purple butterfly skipper--a type of butterfly soldier--a type of butterfly sulfur--a type of butterfly TS--Tiger Swallowtail USDA--United States Department of Agriculture white--a type of butterfly zebra--a type of butterfly

FORUM-SPEAK: Acronyms and Abbreviations BS Blooming Size DH Dear Husband (darned husband, depending on the instance) DD, DS Dear daughter , Dear Son (you get the picture, see above) DIL Daughter in-law EOM End of Message EOoM Exotic Orchids of Maui, a grower many on the forum use IME In My Experience IMHO In My Humble Opinion LOL Laughing Out Loud NBS Near Blooming Size OGRES Orchid Grower Rating/Evaluation System SIL Son-in-Law S/H Semi-hydroponic S/O Significant other ST Superthrive R/O Reverse Osmosis ROFLMAO Rolling on floor laughing my A$$ off ROFLOL Rolling on floor laughing out loud Submitted by RhondaFL and Michigoose

Glad to see you MM. Did you have to change your name to MM for some reason? My name hasn't changed pretty much ever since I started being here. Except I had to add an S because my name was taken by me but I couldn't convince them that was the case. :-).