Re: butterfly counts
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  • Subject: Re: butterfly counts
  • From: D* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 10:54:29 -0500
Title: Re: butterfly counts
For years, I let a small patch of Asclepias syriaca grow in my front yard, only to find nary an egg or larva even though there seemed to be enough adults around.   Are there other species which they prefer?


-- Don Martinson
   Milwaukee, Wisconsin




On 7/29/17, 10:33 PM, "Kitty Morrissy" <1018@rewrite.hort.net> wrote:

So far it’s just one Monarch and one Yellow Swallowtail.
Last year I had only a couple of Monarchs but 8 Yellow Swallowtails. I have an area that’s about 10x12 of Korean Hyssop with a sprinkling of Ox Eye and Catnip. The butterflies and the bees seemed to adore it last year so now I’ve let it get thicker than ever. I hope they come; the bees have already been busy all over it. The lone Monarch seems to go for the Verbena bonariensis.
 
Any butterflies in your area?
 
Kitty
 

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