This beauty will eventually become the beautiful
Black Swallowtail butterfly. Every year, I grow bunches of dill, fennel, carrots and parsley and they are all members of the Umbellifarae (parsley) family. I grow them mainly to attract the
tachinid flies which keeps the great tomato horn worms under control, but a bonus are these beautiful caterpillars and butterflies. Sometimes its ok to let the caterpillars eat the plants. In this case, eat and enjoy!
2 comments:
Wow, you just explained why carrots are good companion plants for tomatoes! I often find companion plant lists, but they seldom explain the benefit. Cool looking caterpillar too.
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