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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Gorgeous butterfly! I don't think we have them here in south Jersey. I will have to check. Thanks for sharing!
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Ooh--I use Feline Pine litter, the sawdust of which is supposedly safe for compost piles once the feces are removed. Do you suppose that urine-infused pine sawdust would attract bitterflies?
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Fox
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Northcentral rural Arkansas, usa
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hey Rebek, you might checkout Viceroy's account of a muddle, to attract butterflies.
http://www.wildlifegardeners.org/for...tml#post123834 He speaks of keeping a depression in the ground moist, and adding some gatoraid,...etc. , could be an answer in that thread for you, toward reuse of your sawdust. The muddle part gets some attention from Equilibrium about half way thru the thread, so if nothing else you might get a chuckle as she teases Viceroy to reveal his muddle tactics. Naturally I support feline urine in sawdust, because it might keep your cats out of your wild geraniums!, will it attract butterflies? It should be worth trying. ![]() ww |
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Offical Silphium Abuser
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
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Thanks, wildwatcher. I'd forgotten the other thread (the aging brain....).
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Central Ohio
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I figured "skipper" when I first looked at the pic but could not find it after looking at all known Arkansas skippers. I then looked more closely at the pic. Antennae are tough to make out but I thought they looked more like a moth's than butterfly/skipper. Grabbed my Covell book and there it was on plate 29. One of those moths that should be in my area but I have not seen it. Anyway, you have a grapevine epimenis. Caterpillar looks cool too. Butterflies and Moths of North America | collecting and sharing data about Lepidoptera Moth Photographers Group – Psychomorpha epimenis – 9309 Species Psychomorpha epimenis - Grapevine Epimenis - Hodges#9309 - BugGuide.Net |
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Fox
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Northcentral rural Arkansas, usa
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Oh how neat KC, tytyty for your interest & time documenting the Grapevine Epimenis, I was happy to track out your hyperlinks you provided! I guess it helps to know that there is lots of wild grapevines in one area of my place, and I've been working & chopping some of it within the last 2 weeks, because it is literally killing a fair amount of large hardwoods in the same area. But my friend Benj1 here at WG, kind of cautioned me long time ago about 'changing things'...now I know why! But still I will be just taking the grapevine that must go, and some dandies that must stay. Hopefully we shall have many more pixs of the Grapevine Psychomorpha in the future, and I'll try to take a better snapshot. I didn't mention it in this thread, but I saw a total of 7 of these little guys in the last 2 days, none today as the weather has changed a bit.
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Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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The other thing about mayapples is that you need two separate individuals in order to get fruit. Compllicating this is that mayapples spread clonally, so what might appear to be a hillside full of individuals, is in fact a single clone and therefore will not bear fruit. I am glad you planted two separate plants (I don't believe they are male and female; they just cannot self fertilize).
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Thanks for the info on the mayapples. I understood what you meant about not being able to self fertilize. I do think I have to separate individuals, but I'll have to see what comes up this year. As to colonial colonies, I get that too...it makes me wonder if it would be a good idea to mix some individuals of both colonies (assuming I get two or more clinal colonies to establish. That way, if something should happen to on colony, there'd still be a chance for fruit. At a park I used to go to, there were many individual plants scattered throughout. I do like the look of a colony, but hopefully I can establish several individuals scattered thought a my woodland settings...one of which has yet to be established (my 'would be woulds').
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