@mossworm.bsky.social: psst hey online nursery Joyful Butterfly has Woolly Pipevine in stock again, if you live in one of these states consider getting one of these so the pipevine swallowtails can eat. In my experience they're one of the most difficult large butterflies to get the correct food plants for.

psst hey online nursery Joyful Butterfly has Woolly Pipevine in stock again, if you live in one of these states consider getting one of these so the pipevine swallowtails can eat. In my experience they're one of the most difficult large butterflies to get the correct food plants for.

you may have heard of Tim Wong's successful project to re-establish the western subspecies of pipevine swallowtail to San Francisco, great example of what you ca do with a small outdoor space and the correct plants: www.vox.com/2016/7/6/120...

How one man repopulated a rare butterfly species in his backyardwww.vox.com We can all contribute to conservation efforts — sometimes even from our own backyards.

WOAAAAH!!! This butterfly looks unreal 💙✨

thanks for sharing this!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful story.

I definitely want these guys around because apparently male Promethea Silkmoths mimic them! Very cool, I haven't seen this plant for sale before.

Wow what a beautiful butterfly!!

Also, I dunno if you ever got my ancient DM on twitter but the Florida museum has these in their gift shop, I was a little surprised to see that!

I think it rotates, last time I was there they had some random nectar plant

That makes sense, deep down I was hoping they had some sort of woolly dutchman's pipe gift shop initiative.

I ordered one from them and my dog ripped it out of its pot and I never got around to replacing it -___- Joyful Butterfly is where I got my passiflora incarnata and it was a huge hit with the wormies! It was such a huge hit that they ate it all and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do now.

What a weird gap of several states.

There's a related plant in those regions called Virginia Snakeroot, so the butterfly lives there too, but yeah it's really weird

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