How very very exciting!!! I recall the day when I first spotted butterfly eggs on host plantings. It's just thrilling! If you want to bring them into a container to raise them, you probably already have something on hand that would work fine. They are easy to raise, and the caterpillars are quite beautiful. They will eat Dill, Fennel, or Parsley, and it is critical to be sure that whatever you buy has not been sprayed with insecticides. If you leave them out there, it is highly likely that they will be consumed. Only 1% of butterfly eggs make it past the egg stage. I would be happy to speak to you about how to raise them. Just send a private message if you'd like to have some individual help. :o) Angie

Hi! Thanks for all the input from y'all. I appreciate it very much. I've looked closely at the pictures of the woolly aphids and the bugs I've seen just don't look like those. I think these bugs are larger and they run, not walk, over the leaf. They are not coating anything because they're too busy running around the leaves. There are not very many of them. I saw one larger one and two smaller ones on the same leaf and they were all running around. That larger one I tried to catch scooted over the edge of the leaf and underneath then fell off of the bottomside of the leaf. I've got to catch one of them so I can really look at it and wouldn't ya know--Now that I want to catch one, do you think I can FIND one of them anywhere? A Guinea pig is what came to mind when I saw those bugs--One of those with the hair that has all the cowlicks in its hair that makes it go all which way. I know that sounds crazy, but... I haven't seen any wings on these bugs. I'll keep looking for them and see if I can catch one and take a picture of it. Then I will have to see if Mike can help me figure out how to put it on the forum for you to see. I'm sorry some of you have had such a time of it with the Junebugs. I went out late at night and picked them off the fig tree out back and then I went out and wasn't seeing them anymore. We haven't had many around so far this year. I guess, from what several of you have said, we know where they all are. I'm so sorry that they are tearing up your trees like that. Most of you have more trees than I do and it would be impossible to pick the bugs off of all of them. Serena, where do you live that the Junebugs are so bad this year? God bless you and your trees, Vivian

Alexa. My favorite hybridizer is R.W. Munson but unfortunately he passed away several years ago. I fell in love with his purples when I saw them at Daylily Discounters in the Gainseville FL area(New Owners there now). But I have several people I keep in mind as far as hybridizing and they are Don Eller, Paul Owens, Bill Maryott, Bill Jarvis. Stamiles daylilies are always a good bet for a begininer to start hybridizing with. Just remember to use diploids with diploids or tetraploids with tetraploids. Crossing a diploid with a tetraploid may result in a seedpod but it may not contain any seeds. We refer to those as airpods. Sometimes they will self abort. If you need more information on daylilies check out the governing body of the A.H.S. or the American Hemrocallis Society. My daylily club is part of this society. If you are in an area that freezes and has snow for most of the winter, dormants are a safe bet to use. Many hybridizers up north use dormants in their hybridizing efforts. I am down south where dormants do not survive well down here. They slowly dwindle away in a couple of years to nothing. I use evergreens and semi evergreens. As long as the temperature is above freezing , semi-evergreens will continue to grow. Right now I can look out at my daylily beds and see green leaves on several plants. I had lost most of what I had to crown rot in the last year and I am having to replace the plants as I can afford to. Here is a link that might be useful: American Hemrocallis Society

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Lou you really are a bad boy.. Shaking head. Scaring Cathy like that. Wonderful gifts. So fun. She really thought of you when she bought that stuff. Cooter rub. Maybe cuz you're a bad ole coot!! (I'm old so I can call another old coot] For all of ya'll out of your Everglade Seasoning, I went to good ole google to see what it was and found their site. They do ship. Here is a link that might be useful: Everglades Seasoning