Great butterfly day in NC!
Michael Gochfeld
gochfeld at eohsi.rutgers.edu
Sun May 21 00:28:17 EDT 2000
Randy
Greetings from South Florida. Fascinating report. Although the
flowers you mention are all reputed to be good for butterflies, we NEVER
see anything on Yarrow or Fleabane (Saltmarsh Fleabane is an exception),
and rarely on Ox-eye Daisy. Dogbane can be terrific in some places and
a dud in other places (maybe due to a diurnal cycle or local variation
in nectar production).
We have been stressing for years that there is tremendous
spatial (as well as temporal) variability in the use of flowers of a
given species by butterflies.
M. Gochfeld
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