We have several gardens in our back yard. I perennial herb garden, an annual garden with annual herbs, lettuce and such and a produce garden with tomatoes, potatoes, squash etc. Last week we found a number of caterpillars on our dill. I knew they were something nice (i.e. not some pest), so we took them in and raised them with our son. It was easy, we found them on dill and fed them dill. They ate all of our dill! After a few days they transformed into pupae, and yesterday the first emerged! Finally we know they are black swallowtails. The second emerged today, and we were fortunate to see everything except the part where he popped out of the cocoon.
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