Caterpillar Host Plants

NOLA BugLadyDecember 3, 2020December 3, 2020Leave a comment

NOLA BugLady's Garden Butterflies and Caterpillars

Download a printable copy of Caterpillar Host Plants.

Black Swallowtail	Parsley, Dill, Fennel, Rue, Cowbane
Giant Swallowtail	Citrus, HopTree, Rue, Prickly Ash
Pipevine Swallowtail	Pipevine varieties: Aristolochia tomentosa, A. fimbriata, A. durior, A. serpentaria, A. triloba
Spicebush Swallowtail	Spicebush, Sassafras, Prickly Ash, Camphor, Sweet Bay Magnolia
Tiger Swallowtail	Tulip Poplar, Ash, Birch, Cottonwood, Hop Tree, Wild Cherry, Willow
Monarch	Milkweed varieties: Asclepias perennis, A. incarnata, A. tuberosa
Viceroy	Cottonwood, Wild Cherry, Willow
Gulf Fritillary	Passion Flower vine varieties: Passiflora incarnata, P. lutea, P. caerulea
Variegated Fritillary	Passion Flower vine varieties, Violets
Common Buckeye	Toadflax, Plantain, Agalinis, Ruellia, Snapdragons, Angelonia, Sedum
American Painted Lady	Asters: Cudweed, Everlastings
Painted Lady	Hollyhock, Sunflowers, Thistles
Red Admiral	Pellitory, Nettle Family: False Nettles, Stinging Nettles, Wood Nettles
Question Mark	Elm, Hackberry, False Nettles (Boehmeria), Stinging Nettles
Cloudless Sulphur	Cassia varieties: Sicklepod (Cassia obtusifolia), C. bicapsularis, Flowering Senna (Senna corymbosa), Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata)
Sleepy Orange Sulphur	Sicklepod, Partridge Pea, Flowering Senna
Common Checkered Skipper	Arrowleaf Sida (Sida rhombifolia)
Clouded Skipper	Various grasses: St. Augustine, Johnson, Wooly Beard Grass (Erianthus alopecturoides)
Fiery Skipper	Various grasses: Bermudagrass, St. Augustine, Creeping bentgrass
Horace Duskywing	Oak: Red, White, Willow, Northern Red, Scrub, Water, Post and Live Oak
Long-tailed Skipper	Legumes: Peas, Beans, Desmodium
Silver-spotted Skipper	Wisteria, Black Locust, False indigo (Amorpha fruticosa)

Day TWO: BugLady’s Twelve Days of Christmas!

NOLA BugLadyDecember 2, 2020Leave a comment

BugLady's TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS!
- Sneak a peak!-

On the Second Day of Christmas my Grandpa read to me
Chapter Two of "BugLady's Butterfly Summer"!

Happy Holidays to Everyone!

BugLady's Butterfly Summer

by Linda Auld

$25.00

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Day ONE: BugLady’s Twelve Days of Christmas!

NOLA BugLadyDecember 1, 2020December 1, 2020Leave a comment

BugLady's TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS!
- Sneak a peak!-

On the First Day of Christmas my Grandma read to me
Chapter one of "BugLady's Butterfly Summer"! Happy Holidays to Everyone!

BugLady's Butterfly Summer

by Linda Auld

$25.00

Buy now

Hilltop Arboretum Gardening Symposium

NOLA BugLadyFebruary 13, 2020February 13, 2020Leave a comment

On January 25, 2020 the Baton Rouge Master Gardeners from Hilltop Arboretum hosted a fantastic Gardening Symposium event packed with very informative nature presentations plus book and plant sales to help further education! Doug Tallamy, nationally known speaker and author of Nature's Best Hope, was promoting the use of native plants to support wildlife whereas Bill Fontenot, author of Native Gardening in the South was more focused on planting for birds. I felt very honored to be sharing the stage with these two very knowledgeable friends of mine as I was presenting, "Plant It and They Will Come!" --how to attract butterflies to your garden using specific native plants. Thank you, Hilltop folks for selling forty copies of my new book, "BugLady's Butterfly Summer"! What a wonderful day!

LSU AgCenter – Geaux Grow Natives Article

NOLA BugLadyJanuary 16, 2020Leave a comment

My article on Geaux Grow Natives was included in the April 2019 LSU AgCenter Newsletter. Below is an excerpt.

I'll never forget the first time I met author Doug Tallamy on the evening of October 10, 2013 at his lecture at Longue Vue Gardens. I purchased his book, "Bringing Nature Home-- How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants" and asked him to sign it. Along with his signature, he wrote these words: "Garden as if life depended on it!"... To read the rest of the article, visit the LSU AgCenter Newsletter.

Hilltop Arboretum Symposium

NOLA BugLadyJanuary 13, 2020July 25, 2020Leave a comment

Nature's Best Hope

A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 8:15am – 2:00pm
EBRP Main Branch Library Conference Room
7711 Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge 70806

Want to attract more wildlife, butterflies and birds to your yard? The Jan. 25 symposium hosted by the Friends of Hilltop Arboretum can help.

The session will feature speakers Douglas W. Tallamy, Linda Barber Auld and Bill Fontenot, all of whom will offer ways for you to help protect and attract birds and bees (and a few other creatures) to your home garden and landscape.

Auld, affectionately known as the New Orleans "BugLady," owns and runs Barber Laboratories. For over 40 years, she has studied and promoted understanding beneficial insects. Auld has raised 125 species of butterflies and moths, studying and photographing their life cycles.

Auld will talk about how to attract butterflies and pollinators throughout the year using native plants. Her new book, "BugLady’s Butterfly Summer," is an uplifting read and will be available for sale.

Deadline for early registration is Jan. 14. The cost is $75 ($85 after the deadline); $25 for students ($35 late) and $65 for members of Friends of Hilltop Arboretum, ($75 late). Registration and more information available at lsu.edu/hilltop, email hilltop@lsu.edu or call (225) 767-6916.

Clegg’s Garden Centers Book Signing

NOLA BugLadyNovember 30, 2019March 20, 2020Leave a comment

May 25, 2019

I had a fabulous time at Clegg's on Siegen Lane and Denham Springs today signing books and introducing people to my "Geaux Grow Natives" spring plants.