Butterflies Nectar Preferences - roses they use
Barb Beck
barb at birdnut.obtuse.com
Sat Jun 23 09:31:22 EDT 2001
Hi,
Butterflies do nectar on some roses.
On our ranch in California we had a huge rose garden. This was at a time
when only part of the oak grass woodland in the central valley of California
was broken and before no-till agriculture. The area near Visalia California
was very very rich in butterflies.
The butterflies ignored many of the roses in the garden but we had one bush,
a small dwarf rose (the bush was large) which we called the "butterfly
bush" The variety was Cecil Bruner. It had small pink roses on it the
size of a quarter to fifty cent piece in diameter when fully open.
Although the butterflies appear to nectar form some roses I have never
observed them on the wild roses we have growing abundantly here in Alberta,
Canada.
Barb Beck
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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