Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 41, 1 by Elphaba

Elphaba wrote:
Could be Sheila. I went out there to look for tersa moth cats and forgot what I was doing! I saw the little anole leap after one of the polys. He missed. It was comical really!

I have noticed a serious decline this year in anoles. I used to have lots of big ones everywhere. This year, I have very few at all and the ones I've been seeing are young ones, newly hatched. Something wiped out a whole generation.

Mel, the swallowtails only seem interested in my plumbago late in the day when they are mostly shaded. When the sun is on the plumbago, the butterflies ignore it entirely and only drink from the nearby pentas and that yellow flower that I can never remember the name of. I'm guessing plumbago doesn't release its nectar until evening?

Here's a duskywing, often ignored because she's not very pretty, poor dear.