14-07-2015, 08:23 PM
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Re: Missing our butterflies
I've got quite a large Buddleia right outside my back door. I can see why they call it "the butterfly bush", it attracts loads. It's lovely to watch them from the kitchen window on a sunny day.I love butterflies. I have got a very pretty duvet cover & pillow cases with butterflies all over them too. Very restful.
14-07-2015, 10:21 PM
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Re: Missing our butterflies
Two very severe winters back to back has killed all our butterflies, even the little white ones that pester the cabbages and survive more cold then any others. Butterflies can't be introduced like other critters as they are specific to a area where they were hatched. A few years ago, when I was in Florida I noticed that butterflies were few and far between. I sent a note to the University of Florida and they told me the winter had killed them, but here were enough in the southern parts of the state that they would slowly work their way back, and they did over the next 3 years. Our winter was over such a large area I doubt we will have them again.
15-07-2015, 02:38 PM
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Re: Missing our butterflies
So sad to read you have no butterflies there, Shirley.We have had a few, Meadow Brown & Small White. But our Buddleia isn't blooming yet. OH pruned it hard & it's taken a while to grow on, it had got flower buds on it now.
Small White, taken in April.
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