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Why are some of the aphids so huge? The green ones.

This is wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing it. Where are you located? I'm in East Tennessee, and am hoping to grow this vine very soon for the butterflies.

My butterflies prefer Guinness Stout…….🦋 🍺

I have raised Pipeline Caterpillars in a butterfly sanctuary for 5 years running, and only had 1 PV caterpillar eat 1 other PV caterpillar as it was going into chrysalis. However, this year, I have a voracious cannibalistic PV caterpillar that has eaten 3 of my other PV caterpillars that were all 3 going into chrysalis. I caught him eating 1, and tried to pry him off of the one he was starting in, but he dropped into the foliage and I lost him. He has been back 2 other times since then to do the same thing. This caterpillar is HUGE, and I am ready for him to go into chrysalis himself so I can stop losing metamorphosing caterpillars!!!! I wonder if he eats pipevine at all!!!

It is actually surprisingly drought tolerant once well established. I always found it in the wild growing in ditch like area so I thought it would not have good drought tolerance, but in fact it can go weeks in the summer without water and still be healthy, even in very dry sandy soils, as long as it's well established first. (like been there for a year +)

It seems in many North American butterflies, meconium is a blood red color. I remember in elementary school when we raised Painted Lady butterflies, after a couple of them emerged from their chrysalises, a couple of my classmates saw the red meconium and were like "Oh, it's bleeding!" But I told them it was only meconium and that it was nothing to worry about.

Do you have it for sale now?

What's your outcome 4 years later?

Genuinely butterflies are the BRAVEST animals on the planet. They will square up to something 1000x their size, that they can't even land a SCRATCH on, and fight with everything they have to get them to leave!

Good tip on the watering for the first 8 weeks. I planted 3 planted yesterday in the parking strip in my front yard. I'm ready for it to take over. I loved seeing the Buckeye on it!

I want to know what type of butterfly this is bc I have one

My garden full cacoons

This is not a black swallowtail caterpillar what child hill caterpillars are green

I never knew that 😳😳😳

Helping nature one beer at a time!🍺

dead ass?

What, no 5-gallon buckets for mixing where you live ? Geez.

How long does it keep in fridge, indefinitely? Great idea. Please don't attract them if your neighbors spray lawn chemicals, pesitcides.

Isnt it just better to let it land on you and avoid holding them

definately NOT evergreen in zone 8

Any problems with ants?

Can you use a substitute for the beer?

May try the dwarf hackberry in my butterfly garden.

I would let a ladybug land on me, but I ever saw one of these things I'd burn the house down 🤷🏾‍♂️😭😭

What kind of camera did you use to get such amazing video?

There was a demonstration by our public library this summer where they let some go and the lady running falsely instructed me NOT to hold them like this. I didn't argue I just let her be ignorant. She was even 'terse' about it.. but I laughed. Every single Monarch they let go..ended up flying over to me and landing on me LOL

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where do I buy seeds?

I just discovered that this is growing in my yard near my driveway in full all day sun. I'm going to try to propagate this into a pot and in a weedy flowerbed area to hopefully keep other weeds out and help our pollinators.

The dog is cute! You do not need to exclude her

How do you tell the difference between Kurapia and native phyla nodiflora? I live in the native region, and I want the native version that is not sterile and supports local wildlife.

YES!!! THANK YOU!!! Ive been seeing quite a few videos on this bug and people saying they are harmless. Ha, tell that to my butterfly weed(asclepias tuberosa) short of the long of it...i dug up one on the side of the road and stuck it in my front garden. Ive had it for over 10 years now and its HUGE! 3+feet across and well over 2 feet high, gorgeous orange blooms, even the neighbors have complimented on it. Fast forward to about 4 years ago. I went out and saw some of the shoots drooping and eventually half of the plant never got blooms and it wasnt even getting as big as it used to. There they were, the MWLB!!! Its a battle getting these every year. Was just out there before watching your video and destroyed 2 and what i believe was a bunch of just hatched larvae. Spread the word. Good luck to you and your cats.

Hmmmm this one sure tastes different

This is nice, but it lacks nutrients. In nature you see butterflies drink from puddles with urine and manure in it. You can mimmick that with some compost, tiny bit of seasalt and a few cowdong grains (biol fertilizer) mixed in the water. 😉 Keep up the good work! Like to watch it.

can it be trained to stay shorter?

So cute! Thank you so much. Welcome to the world little one indeed!

EXCITING! Where can I buy pipevine? Subscriber from Florida. Thanks for sharing

Awesome, cant wait till spring so I can plant a butterfly garden! ✌😍🦋

Awesome Channel! ✌❤🦋

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Awesome Drake!

Thats Awesome Drake, Thanks for sharing this!

Interesting. So if a wasp parasitised an aphid with its egg, then that ladybird larvae is eating a young wasp.

This is a fantastic video. I had no luck growing this from seed. I just found a nursery in Loiusiana that sells the plants. Thanks for this video!

I'm considering a Native Pipevine for my area in Georgia. The Wooley kind. Recommendations on care / sunlight and spread? Doing my part to help the butterfly and bee populations!

That's gorgeous looking butterfly.

That's some pretty awesome macro footage of such tiny insects.

Made this, no butterflies...☹ although the State/County just poison sprayed ALL the milkweed apx. 1/4 mile up the road.. probably killed a whole lot! 🙄🤨🤐..so I will continue 2 plant milkweed here...I will do what I can. 👍✌not giving up! 🌈😇 Linda

After it rains the container will be overflowing. Do you just tip it over a little to get rid of the excess water?

Aloha & thank you! Monarchs showed up this year...been raising from eggs...but this is an additional food source for them...all! Gonna try this....laters ✌Linda