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Attracting Butterflies With Native Plants

Attracting Butterflies With Native Plants. Dr. Thomas G. Barnes Department of Forestry University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40546-0073 tbarnes@uky.edu. FLYING FLOWERS. Tantalizing beauty Flashy & bold colors Dazzling flights Interesting life history Seemingly endless variety.

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Attracting Butterflies With Native Plants

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  1. Attracting Butterflies With Native Plants Dr. Thomas G. Barnes Department of Forestry University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40546-0073 tbarnes@uky.edu

  2. FLYING FLOWERS • Tantalizing beauty • Flashy & bold colors • Dazzling flights • Interesting life history • Seemingly endless variety

  3. Pleasure to watch • Provide habitat • Education • Photography

  4. Lepidoptera “Scaly Wing” Pigmented Scales on Wings Butterflies & Moths 165,000 different species in U.S. 143 KY Butterflies < 2,200 KY Moths

  5. Butterfly or Moth? • Clubbed antennae • Active @ day • Colorful

  6. Butterfly or Moth? • Fuzzy antennae • Active @ night • Not so colorful

  7. Basic Butterfly Biology What are general habitat requirements? Forest, meadow, wetland?

  8. BASIC ANATOMY • Head • Thorax • Abdomen • Six Legs • Pair Antennae

  9. Proboscis Proboscis length + leg length limits flower selection

  10. Long tubed flowers (Bergamot) Only used by skippers & swallowtails

  11. Short proboscis Aphid sap, rotting fruit, tree sap, animal droppings

  12. Complete metamorphosis

  13. Black Swallowtail

  14. Monarch Butterfly • Caterpillar = milkweed • Adult = various

  15. Gulf FritillaryPassionflower

  16. Juvenal’s Dusky Wing Fiery Skipper Yehl Skipper Pipevine Swallowtail Black Swallowtail Zebra Swallowtail Spicebush Swallowtail Oaks KY Bluegrass Wild Cane Dutchman’s pipevine Dill, parsley, fennel, carrot Paw paw Spicebush, sassafras Specific Caterpillar Host Plants

  17. American copper Olive hairstreak Snout butterfly Great-spangled fritillary Pearl crescent Dockweed Red Cedar Hackberry Violets Asters Specific Caterpillar Host Plants

  18. Tiger Swallowtail Multiple Broods Edward’s Hairstreak One Brood

  19. Mourning Cloak Over-winter @ adult

  20. Monarch Migrates

  21. Red-spotted Purple Over-winter as caterpillar

  22. Pearl Crescent Over-winter as egg

  23. Basking Behavior Internal Temperature 82 – 100 F

  24. Puddle Behavior

  25. Flower Attractants • 20% sugar • Lots of amino acids • Color • Odor • Shape– • # flowers on cluster • Short-tubes

  26. Common Lantana • Is it native? • Is it a wildflower?

  27. Top Nectar Sources #1 Dogbanes #2 Common Milkweed #3 Swamp/Red Milkweed #4 Asters

  28. Top Nectar Sources #5 Goldenrods #6 Wintercress #7 Blazingstars #8 Coneflowers (Echinacea)

  29. Top Nectar Sources #9 Vetches #10 Selfheal #11 New Jersey Tea #12 Buttonbush #13 Blackberry #14 Bluets #15 Sunflowers #16 Butterfly Weed

  30. Top Nectar Sources #17 Eupatoriums (Joe-pye-weeds) #18Ironweed #19 Vervain

  31. Some Early Spring Flowers rhododendrons azaleas Wild geranium

  32. Garden Design WARMCOLORSARETHEPRIMARY FOCUS Large Clusters Are Best COOL COLORS ARE USED FOR ACCENT

  33. NO PESTICIDES

  34. Enjoy Those Flying Flowers!!

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