Hi "Love to grow flowers"- Our Karyn has given us the best advice again. It sounds like your brug might have died back. If you look closely, sometimes you can distinguish between the dead tissue and the living. I've noticed that the dead tissue looks like it's peeling, grey & shriveled,or a hard, dried up brown stick. It seems to die from the top down to where the living tissue is. Just my experience anyway. If your roots remain alive, and you increase it's warmth & sunlight, you'll be surprised how your plant will start sending up shoots & leaves. Best wishes to you, and welcome! kasha77

I guess the inconsistent weather we have here, and the lack of distinct seasons, confuses the butterflies, if that is possible. I think you mentioned a while back Missherry, that the cats/eggs I found, seemed to be showing up a little late in the season. I wonder if "late babies" occur more often in certain zones. I think i will feed them, take them out, open the reptarium and let them decide, heck, the two times I have offered them freedom, they stayed put, but it was right before we ended up getting that wintery mix, and a little bit of snow. Maybe they sensed the harsh weather that was coming and decided they would rather stay inside until it passed, I will let ya'll know what happens. I kind of hope they don't leave, lol, knowing that I gave them the opportunity to take off and they passed it up would make me feel much better about keeping them indoors. Thanks Oh, Missherry, on a different note, I ended up bringing the sulphur cats in before the snow came. I only found two, and they looked absolutely frozen solid when I found them to bring them in. I thought they were dead, but after they warmed up, they started eating like crazy, they move a LOT faster than the GSTs, lol, I guess that isn't saying much. I found out they really like to wander before they pupate, lol, and they don't seem to purge before so you have a heads up either, unless i just missed it. ANyway, I went to clean their cages and change their food, and opened one of the cages and could not find the cat, ANYWHERE, i kept looking and looking, and he was gone, I was shocked, i really do not know how he even managed to escape, he must have shimmied through those tiny little spaces in the top of the critter cage. I looked high and low and could not find him anywhere, at this point I was looking on the bottom of my shoe because I thought I must have accidentally squished him, I finally found him all the way at the other end of the large room i had them in, on the leg of a chair, I think he was going to pupate there, lol, I could not believe he just left, haha, I have never had a gst do that, this cat went clear across the room. I finally got him to crawl on a stick and got him back into a critter cage and he pupated last night. I was lucky enough to catch him in the process, which was kind of neat. I couldnt believe the way he was suspended in the air, i thought he was attached in a sling like the gsts but after he pupated it looked like only the bottom of his body was attached, and i do not see a sling. Do you know how long these guys stay in pupa? I am hoping they are just a tad bit more predictable than the gsts, so I will know what to expect.

Any green on leaves will still be producing food for the plant. It depends on whether the aesthetics or the health of the plant are more important. Either way it wouldn't be fatal. You could easily survive the offence to your sense of aesthetics, and the plant could easily survive the loss of those leaves.

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