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A new one to my property... 2 1/2 feet tall with vaguely dill-like leaves.











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It really does look very dill-esque. Interesting! What does it smell like?  I hope someone can confirm or deny it...

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Will try to find out the smell... seems that by now I'd remember to check that...

These are from a couple of weeks later. An unknown to me seems to like the plant. Who is he?


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That fella looks like some kind of swallowtail type larva. I'm leaning black swallowtail and they do like dill and parsley!

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Black swallowtail caterpillar is very easy to raise. If you want you can move it to a container with cheesecloth cover with fresh dill or parsley inside. It's fun to observe how the caterpillar crawl up and down to make a silk pad and attach itself with a thin string of silk to pupate. The chrysalis will turn dark in about 10 days before butterfly emerges. I had many caterpillars in my garden but kept missing the opportunity to see the butterfly coming out as it happens much faster than Monarch butterfly. I have one about the same instar as yours now. Maybe we can have a hatch-along together.

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Sounds like fun May! Mine will have to happen in situ. The job gets in the way of so much fun stuff.

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If you have an organza bag or row cover to keep the caterpillar from crawling away, that's better. I tend to find chrysalis in all kinds of odd places, including hanging off kid's bike spoke! Once I saw a chrysalis turning black and went in the house to get a tripod, came back out it was gone. The chicken beat me to it.

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Well, that photo was from last week. Only one leaf remained green and the caterpillar was nowhere to be found. The leaf, when crushed did have a faint smell reminiscent of dill. When I had grown dill, it was very aromatic. again, this is very faint. Here's what the mature seed heads look like.


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Could it be just wild dill Perideridia americana?
https://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/wild_dillx.htm

It's nice to have native dill out there for native insects. Hopefully the caterpillar spared some seeds.

Here is my little cat. It's positioned for pupating now. See how it chose a branch not far from an empty chrysalis.
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Black swallowtail caterpillar on dill
Black swallowtail caterpillar on dill

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I think you are correct May. iNaturalist gives it the common name of wild dill, as well as thicket parsley. That link gives hundreds of pictures of it.

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The butterfly came out this morning. That caterpillar moved on to my squash fabric strip to pupae on Julyv15th. Yesterday I saw it changed color a bit and kept a close eye on it. And here comes the little beauty!
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Day 1 of chrysalis on July 15th
Day 1 of chrysalis on July 15th
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Another one day behind
Another one day behind
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July 28th
July 28th
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Crawling out
Crawling out
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Drying the wings
Drying the wings
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Dangerously close to chicken
Dangerously close to chicken
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It's a female
It's a female

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