When I went to the herb garden to cut parsley, I found this cool caterpillar. Then I saw another. And another! Closer inspection revealed seven caterpillars in the parsley. There are three on this plant alone: the obvious one, one down at the base of the plant, and another on the left side. I'm not sure what the one on the left is, but the other two are the larvae of swallowtail butterflies. We like swallowtails, but we'd also like to keep our parsley. Fortunately, there's an easy solution for dealing with them: they will feed on Queen Anne's Lace, a wildflower. I found a container, picked off all the caterpillars, and moved them to some Queen Anne's Lace on our property.
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