
Yes, I'm guilty of dual standards - happily picking off the green cabbage white caterpillars and leaving these. I console myself with the thought that cabbage whites are non-native butterflies (they arrived in Quebec in 1860, according to my Garden Bugs of Ontario book), while swallowtails are. And I'm not the only one who feels this way - I see that Daphne has the same discriminatory tendencies!
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I confess that I love to watch the cabbage butterfly in my garden too, but they are way to numerous to let their caterpillars run free. And the swallowtails are so beautiful. They are easily worth a dill or fennel plant. I have to say even their caterpillars are beautiful.
I plan to be far more discriminating about caterpillars in future.
--kate
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