Mom to the rescue! This situation is one of the reasons it's good to have a butterfly garden buddy-extra host plant (caterpillar food plant) reserve. I was out of food, but she had dill, parsley, fennel and rue in her garden.he gave me some dill plants and a fennel plant, which I put in my garden by the caterpillars, and took her new caterpillars home. The caterpillars that remained chewed all the dill, fennel, and parsley down to nothing but stubs, and then vanished.
Rabies is an acute viral disease of the central nervous system that affects humans and other mammals but is most common in carnivores (flesh-eaters). It is sometimes referred to as a zoonosis, or disease of animals that can be communicated to humans.oonosis â Any disease of animals that can be transmitted to humans. Rabies is an example of a zoonosis. As of October 2004, the medical community awaits the publication of findings by the doctors that administered a life-saving treatment that cured a Wisconsin teenager of full-blown rabies.
The preferred scientific name for rabies is the rabies virus. The rabies virus, which is an RNA virus, is part of the Rhabdoviridae family of viruses. It appears that there are several variations of the rabies virus that are able to cause rabies.