# I just saw a butterfly lay egs onmy kumquat bush!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 31, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227 "2007-05-31T19:17:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/1 "2007-05-31T19:17:04Z")
I don’t think it was butterfly poop.
😛
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/2 "2007-05-31T20:39:17Z")
And then the eggs hatch into caterpillars, and they eat your kumquat bush.
Still feeling happy?
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/3 "2007-05-31T20:40:40Z")
What kind of butterfly was it? _curious_
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### Author:  [@Nancarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nancarrow)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/4 "2007-05-31T21:03:14Z")
Wow. I think the OP may have written a sentence that _has never been written before_.
(cue Twilight Zone Music)
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [May 31, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/5 "2007-05-31T21:33:44Z")
I’ll guess some type of swallowtail.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/6 "2007-06-01T00:17:56Z")
That reads like some weird Oriental circumlocution for Sex.
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### Author:  [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/7 "2007-06-01T00:34:17Z")
Geez- I am the worst typist. Can I blame it on all the kids running around here now that school is out?
It was a swallowtail.
I don’t mind if they eat some of the plant as long as they don’t eat the whole thing.
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### Author:  [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/8 "2007-06-01T00:35:48Z")
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### Author:  [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/9 "2007-06-01T00:57:32Z")
Cool. We had milkweed in the yard so we ended up with a Monarch chrysalis on our tomato plant (next door to the milkweed.) I missed seeing it emerge but I saw it it flapping it’s wings for the first time, before it lit out to Mexico.
Keep a camera around.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/10 "2007-06-01T01:42:26Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir]
Cool. We had milkweed in the yard so we ended up with a Monarch chrysalis on our tomato plant (next door to the milkweed.) I missed seeing it emerge but I saw it it flapping it’s wings for the first time, before it lit out to Mexico.
Keep a camera around.
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Monarch’s like milkweed and dill.
Now to ruin the magic. Swallowtails like plants in the citrus family.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/11 "2007-06-01T02:05:12Z")
“I don’t have any problems with butterflies _per se_\*.”
- “per se” is Greek for “unless they lay eggs in my salad.”
- Dave Barry
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-saw-a-butterfly-lay-egs-onmy-kumquat-bush/406227/12 "2007-06-01T03:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Leaper]
“I don’t have any problems with butterflies _per se_\*.”
- “per se” is Greek for “unless they lay eggs in my salad.”
- Dave Barry
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Faux Caviar?