My buddleia has been fantastic this year and the sunny weather has certainly suited the butterflies. This is a Peacock butterfly
Some butterflies in my garden thanks to buddleia
Painted Lady
Another Painted Lady
Small tortoishell
Small white
Another white
They're wonderful! My buddleia didn't make it thru the winter last year and I was going to replace it with something else, but this may just convince me to give it another try.
gram
Gal, Thanks for sharing your butterflies, they are lovely.
Grampapa, Don't give up on butterflybush, I grew mine from seed several years ago and have 6 growing around my house near the windows, I can see the butterflies from inside the house. Great entertainment : )
Gram, do give it another try!
I wish I'd got a buddleia years ago!
OMG what a beautiful BF. Fabulous pics. Another great attractor is Cuphea, cigar plant
Oh my! If I ever saw such beauties in my world I'd keel over with an anxiety attack before I could make it to my camera. Unbelieveably awsome!
Galanth! What a gifted photographer you are! The butterflies are wonderful! t.
Great shots. You have an amazing variety.
Andy P
Ooooh, such good shots Galanthophile! And great encouragement for me, as I just bought two buddleia's today in order to bring more flutterbyes around. I'm sure my neighbors think I've gone daft, as I have a camera and coffee cup in hand each morning now :) I can't wait for an opportunity to catch more on film - my only 'captures' so far are a grey hairstrand and some kind of moth that looked like a military plane...lol.
Thanks for sharing your lovely visitors with us!
-Sunny (new to this butterfly stuff)
This message was edited Aug 13, 2006 11:37 PM
Sunny did you mean Gray Hairstreak??? and the moth is probably a Mournful Sphinx. Your description was the same thing I thought when I first saw one. Is this it
What a beautiful variety you have. Great shots too!!
I sometimes feel a bit daft just standing by the plant waiting for the butterflies to pose but hey who cares! It's worth it. I also saw a lovely comma and this brown one which I haven't identified and couldn't really get a good enough picture of. Thanks for all your lovely comments :)
LOL Donna...um yes, Hairstreak, not strand 0_0
Nope, the moth I saw was smaller,here's a pic. I don't have a very good zoom, and ever time I'd try to get closer he'd flit away and I'd have to stand around looking disinterested until he landed again :)
That one of yours could take my li'l bitty thing out in no time flat!
-Sunny
That one's a skipper. Looks like the broad-winged skipper I took pix of yesterday. I looked him up and added him to the bug files, since he wasn't already on there.
http://davesgarden.com/bf/showimage/1128/
This message was edited Aug 15, 2006 2:52 PM
Funny - I even said at the time that it looked like a fighter jet! LOL
Nice photos.
Does the UK have problems with Buddleia escaping cultivation, like it does in parts of the United States?
It's often found in wild and derelict places and is a weed! It's beautiful in its cultivated form though.