Plants and butterflies have an essential symbiotic relationship. Plants can’t grow...
Few natural scenes are as serene as summertime butterflies flitting like little angels silently, elegantly over neighborhood gardens, fields and parks., butterflies move through the air as easily as birds but in a more erratic flight pattern, as though sailing at the whim of summer breezes. Yet they know where they’re going and how to maneuver their flight.
Flying butterflies survey the availability of flowering plants such as purple coneflower, lantana and sage that produce energizing nectar. They should find abundant nectar-producing plants nourished by recent months of rain., fluttering on black-edged yellow wings, will hover above a nectar-producing plant like a purple coneflower. In action barely visible to our naked eyes, the butterfly uncoils its tube-like proboscis to probe a flower head and suck its nectar.
North America has about 700 butterfly species with about 400 in Texas, including about 100 in the Houston area. Plants and butterflies have an essential symbiotic relationship. Plants can’t grow without pollinating butterflies, and the larvae of butterflies cannot develop into winged creatures without plants. Consider that when spraying your flower garden with insecticides that have already diminished butterfly populations.
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