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| Pipevine |
A large pipevine (
Aristolochia macrophylla) rambles up to the roof on a trellis outside my study window in the Piedmont.
Some years, it's a great host for pipevine swallowtail caterpillars; in other years,
we don't see any. This has been a good year for early sighting of butterflies and caterpillars, maybe because of unseasonably warm temperatures early in spring.
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| Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar |
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| Chrysalis |
I noticed chrysalides (=chrysalises) in numerous places on the top of the porch arches and along the base of the gutters. They'll probably emerge this summer (I saw some empty ones).
I hadn't noticed so many in previous years.
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| Chrysalises and (probably 4th) instar |
