Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 64, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Yeah, it was uwfully hot today. Am dreading our butterfly count on July 18th and 19th!!! It's gonna be sooooooooooooo hot!!! But with the sporadic rains we've gotten lots of natives are blooming and the butterflies are picking up. Probably saw a good 30 different species today and that's not counting any skippers.

Ya'll need to remember out butterfly festival is in October - the fall season where we hope for cooler temps but don't always get them :o)

Was outside cleaning some seeds I'd harvested and stopped every now and then to walk around the yard - saw three wee Clytie Ministreaks on the blue porterweed. They use legumes - creeping mesquite is what the book says but I've never been able to see a female ovipositing on anything. Am wondering if they use plumbago - as I always see some on that back at the ranch. Of course, the place is surrounded by mesquite trees so there's no telling what they actually use out here!

~ Cat


This message was edited Jun 28, 2009 5:01 PM