Butterfly Bush Casts Its Magic Spell on Butterflies

Video: Butterflies can't resist the "Butterfly Bush"

Butterflies can't resist the "Butterfly Bush"

Tiger Swallowtails, Pipevine Swallowtails and a few other butterfly species find this "Butterfly Bush" irresistible. Perhaps due to all the rain, we have a bumper crop of blossoms and the late summer butterflies that feed on them! The Tiger Swallowtail in the photo above is the State Butterfly of North Carolina!

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Butterfly Feeding Frenzy

Video: Butterfly Feeding Frenzy

Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly Feeding Frenzy

Relaxing! Only a solitary Milk Thistle blossom within a large area of many plants emerged a few days ago and it was quickly found by a large number of hungry Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies and bees leading to a rare and beautiful feeding frenzy. All thistle is generally considered an invasive weed, but Milk Thistle is not unattractive due to its large colorful blossoms and is a choice food for butterflies. The extract of the dried seeds is purported to be good for the liver.

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