I agree with what Neil Soares just wrote .... it was not a favor to your plant either... every living thing depends on some other living thing... like we do on vegetables... so do these caterpillars on your plant... they should be taken as part of web of life, not removed...
watching them grow is another delight that one missed this way... sorry .... Bhagyashri... you are lucky to have a garden in a city with a lawn/grass and flowering plants... with its own web of life... enjoy it ... while it happens to you or your plants... you would have been rewarded with butterflies... better luck and understanding next time Live and learn is my motto... Usha di ======== On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ms. Bhagyashri, > The caterpillars are most likely to be of the Tawny Coster butterfly. > Host plants are generally specific for butterflies. Sometimes butterflies > have multiple host plants as in this case - caterpillars of this > butterfly can also survive on Aporoso lindleyana, Adenia hondala and other > species of Passiflora. > From the grass where you have placed them the caterpillars will either > have to find their way back to the host plant or perish. > With regards, > Neil Soares. > > --- On *Thu, 6/7/12, Bhagyashri <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Bhagyashri <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:118981] efloraofindia:'' Id 03062012MR1’’ need > your help; how do I save the Passiflora sp and the ?caterpillars @ Pune > To: "hari lal" <[email protected]> > Cc: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012, 3:49 PM > > Thank you Hari lal ji for the appreciation. By evening all the > caterpillars gathered at the corner of the leaf up and below the leaf. As > you can see in the pic attached they had started voraciously eating into > the leaf. Next morning it was even worse. There is grass around my house so > I cut the leaf at the stalk and placed it within the grass. I think they > would survive there and my plant too was saved. > > On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:34 PM, hari lal > <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > > nice madam > > On 6/3/12, Bhagyashri > <[email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>> > wrote: > > Dear members, > > 3rd June 2012 Pune > > 3-4 days back I saw some ? eggs on the Passiflora sp at my home. Today in > > the morning luckily I witnessed the actual hatching of these > ?caterpillars > > from these beautiful transparent ? cocoons. It was a moment to remember. > On > > the opposite leaf I saw a yellow purple insect ( I have know idea as to > > what it is) looking in this direction; and then came a ? wasp moving > within > > these caterpillars and cocoons. I have absolutely no idea about the > > relation between these 3. Will these grow big and eat away the leaves? > What > > do I do to preserve the plant and the caterpillars too? Would very much > > appreciate your help. > > -- > > Thanks and Regards > > Bhagyashri > > > > > -- > HARI SHANKAR LAL > AT-SHIV KUTIR > PO-BARA BAZAR > DIST-HAZARIBAG > PIN-825301 > JHARKHAND,INDIA > MOBILE-9431530563 > [email protected]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > > > > -- > Regards > Bhagyashri > > -- Usha di ===========
