I havent seen any caterpillars yet this year. but if you have the adults around and you have pipevine i promise you they will come. and there will be plenty of them.

Look here. I just found my first of the year today!

I remember last summer I brought home a whole bunch of them but didn't do anything and they all died. That was before I got into raising butterflies. I won't forget the first time I heard a crunching sound and looked up to see one eating a big ole leaf above my head... they are loud and I can't wait to start rearing them. The pipevine is in bloom right now (weird looking flowers). I've got my eye out...

I wish we had a pipevine here at our house. I'll have to get a few caterpillars from the one in the mountains though. yeah pipevines do produce weird looking flowers. thats neat about you being able to hear that one.

Down by the creek it's covered in pipevine here in certain places. When the cats get big enough you can hear them eating, the leaves are sort of "crispy" and the cats eat it like crazy.

man thats cool that you have that much pipevine. i hope to get some going here at my house some day, then i can have the caterpillars right in my back yard.

It takes over the trees along the riverbank, despite the caterpillars. You will probably have to cut it back all the time unless you want your house covered in it...if you have any creeks around the area, go look around the banks. Pipevine is unmistakable with its huge cordate leaves. If you see a lot of the adult butterflies in your area, you may have pipevine nearby, as many tend to "hang out" near the host plant.

Ive heard that pipevines grow pretty fast. i would still like to grow some.

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