Looking for black swallowtails, and red admirals

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Hello: 

I've let the list know that my goal at our environmental science magnet school's greenhouse is to focus on maintaining at least 3 native species: Monarchs, Cabbage whites, Red Admirals, Black swallowtails. 

The first 2, no problem. Admirals: I tried a month ago to collect larvae from stands of abundant nettles, but found that predation/parasitism (both tachinids and wasps) was almost total. I could not establish a founding population. 

Black swallowtails I began a while ago with a set of eggs I obtained from Maryann. I reared to adult, obtained eggs, but those have not emerged. It may have to do with my having been gone for the last 2 weeks. (Maryann - note that your cecropia caterpillars have developed well, are near pupation). 

I know that the black swallowtails in particular are sometimes found in large numbers on garden umbellifers. If you know of such a situation, I would go anywhere in CT to collect some. 

Thanks, David, Mary Hooker School, 734 635-7750. 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Zartarian" <royz at royzartarian.com> 
To: "CT=LEPS" <ctleps-l at lists.yale.edu> 
Sent: Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:30:31 PM 
Subject: Hillstead field trip tally 

About twenty-five people joined the joint CBA-Hillstead Museum walk in Farmington on 8/6. Despite the cloudy sky, a total of 19 butterfly species was seen: 



Black Swallowtail 
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 
Cabbage White 
Clouded Sulphur (inc. a mating pair in flight) 
Orange Sulphur 
Eastern Tailed Blue 
Summer Azure 
Great Spangled Fritillary 
Pearl Crescent 
Viceroy 
Satyrodes sp. 
Common Ringlet 
Common Wood Nymph 
Monarch 
Silver-spotted Skipper 
Least Skipper 
Peck's Skipper 
Tawny-edged Skipper 
Northern Broken Dash 


Roy Zartarian 

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