PHOTO OF THE DAY: Butterflies as Caterpillars

Perry Hall residents Colleen Bowers and Dean Foreman submitted the above photo of their butterfly garden window box.

Bowers wrote the following description in an email to Patch:

Dean and I have had a butterfly garden for several years in a window box outside of our dining room window. We grow a variety of plants which are needed as host and nectar sources. Each year the adult butterflies find our window box and lay eggs which hatch into caterpillars. This year has been a bonus since our window box is now supporting a second round of caterpillars. This photo was taken [Aug. 26] and the caterpillars have now nearly completely striped the parsley with only bare twigs remaining. A few of the caterpillars are now in the pupa stage ... we should have a new batch of Black Swallowtails in Perry Hall in a few days.

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