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August Fruit and Nuts Tips

August Fruit and Nuts Tips

Spotted Lanternfly is in Virginia

Learn more about this invasive pest.

Spotted Lanternfly

 

Save the Date!

  • Nature Surprises for Kids: Scents from Nature, August 5, 11 a.m. to Noon. Learn more and register through the Handley Regional Library System website. 
  • Make a Hanging Gourd Planter, August 12, 10:30-12:30 a.m. Learn more and register through the Belle Grove website.
  • Nature Surprises for Kids: Wild & Free in the Fields, August 19, 5-6 p.m. Bowman Library, Learn more and register through the Handley Regional Library System website. 
  • FallFest – October 9, 2021
  • Seed Exchange at Blandy – January 29, 2022

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Another first in my pollinator garden -- pipevine swallowtail caterpillars are feeding on my 3-year-old Wooly Dutchman's Pipevine (Aristolochia tomentosa). So exciting! I know only a couple may make it to butterfly, but it's so nice to see the caterpillars using a plant I added just for their use.Wooly Dutchman's Pipevine is native to the SW half of Virginia, but not to the Northern Shenandoah Valley. plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/aristolochia-tomentosa/The caterpillars most likely normally eat Virginia Snakeroot or Virginia Dutchmans Pipevine in our area, which is in the same family and is native to almost all of Virginia.plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/aristolochia-serpentaria/common-name/virginia-snakeroot/Pipevine Swallowtail: entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/bfly/pipevine_swallowtail.htmPictured: Caterpillars yesterday; Adult in 2019 on Penstemon digitalis - EMG Stacey ... See MoreSee Less

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