You may purchase your Pawpaw from us or from a local dealer. Remember you must have Pawpaw for these caterpillars when they arrive as their food supply. All butterfly egg shipments must be next day air. The Zebra Swallowtail catapillar has a very unusal way that it walks. If you want to get something done, it can happen faster if you get help.Zebra Swallowtail butterfly eggs are lime green and laid on the underside of PawPaw tree leaves to hide them predators.Many times, things that seem small are really very, very big! Like the breeze from one butterfly flapping its wings.You can do something tangible to improve the world just by paying attention.The Zebra Swallowtail is a local species and requires local interest. Think about what is happening in your local community no matter where you are.I could use help in covering some of that ground.” She also suggesting that any entity who manages land on waterways can help bring back the zebra swallowtail by restoring pawpaws to these areas where they used to be abundant.įinally we asked, what is something you hope folks take away from learning about your efforts to restore the pawpaws? Gob listed out the following five items: I have hiked many miles and kayaked along a fraction of the waterways that need pawpaws to restore the zebra swallowtail. She said, “I would love to get some sort of grant that supports me. For the restoration process, Gabrielle has been building a database and maps that show where pawpaws are still surviving and is working on taking further action to make them thrive. A lot needs to happen to bring back the zebra swallowtail. At the moment, Gabrielle is doing this work as an unpaid, singular person. Wondering where you fit into all of this? You can help preserve and restore the pawpaws and bring back the zebra swallowtail. The waterways in the Pittsburgh area have been greatly abused and are extremely important to 10% of the population of the United States if you do the math that’s more than 25 million people! In addition to this, the zebra swallowtail can finally return to the Pittsburgh region! She said, if we restore pawpaws to these areas, other plants and animals are likely to return and with their presence, the waters that flow through will be naturally filtered and everyone downstream of us from here down to New Orleans will have cleaner drinking water. Pawpaw’s main habitat is next to waterways both big and small. Gob highlighted the benefits of restoring the habitat as a snowball effect. Though Gob, mentioned, for the folks who want to take the laissez faire route, try putting seeds in your compost pile, and when they sprout, sometimes years later, plant them in your garden in a shady wetter area. The seeds require long cold wet stratification followed up with very specific growing conditions. The pawpaw has evolved an anachronistic seed dispersal method, that used largely extinct megafauna, especially mastodons through their spore. When the industries receded, many plants common to riparian areas returned, but not the pawpaw. The zebra swallowtail disappeared from Pittsburgh about a hundred years ago due to the destruction of riparian areas where the pawpaw tree used to be common. Her curiosity led her to realize that much like many other questions about the Pittsburgh region, the answer largely traced itself to the rapid growth of steel and other industries. Gabrielle, or Gob as some may know her got interested in pawpaws when she noted in her iNaturalist app that the zebra swallowtail butterfly stops an hour south, and west, of Pittsburgh, and began wondering why that was. Gabrielle grafted 3 cultivar varieties of pawpaws at Garden Dreams because cultivars are more appealing to our taste buds than many wild pawpaws and also to aid in the effort of bringing back zebra swallowtail’s habitats by bringing more awareness to pawpaws in general. If you’ve stopped by Garden Dreams during our seedling sale, you are most likely familiar with the lovely pollinator garden on the property that supports a diversity of butterflies, moths, and bees. Over the years, she’s developed a close relationship with Garden Dreams Urban Farm and Plant nursery. Gabrielle has served as a field archaeologist, rock singer, bicycle messenger, landscaper, plant nursery potter, and butterfly ambassador. During the late, breezy afternoon in June, Gabrielle Marsden took us around Garden Dreams and pointed out the pawpaw fruits on one of the trees and also the new cultivars where she had grafted pawpaw scions onto the root-suckers of a tree.
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