Sunday, June 9, 2024

At the Butterfly Bush

 

The Desert Botanical Garden has a plant they call a butterfly bush located at one spot in the garden.  It always draws in the butterflies.  This bush must be especially sweet because the butterflies really do love it.



I can always find butterflies fluttering around this bush.  On this day, they were all queen butterflies.  In fact, we have a lot of queen butterflies in the Phoenix area.  They are the dominate species around here.


8 comments:

Stefan Jansson said...

Buddleja in Swedish.

Travel said...

You have such patience to get these images.

RedPat said...

How beautiful, Sharon.

Diaday said...

Wow...queen butterflies! I learned something new from this post and did a little more research on them. Its wing pattern is beautiful.

Bill said...

Great captures of the beautiful butterflies. I have a hard time getting a good photo of them, they always take off.

Catarina said...

I haven't seen those for a while.
I am glad I passed by.

Steve Reed said...

Nice! That's not the same butterfly bush we have here in England -- which I believe is the kind Stefan is talking about above. Yours almost looks like a thistle.

Amy said...

so pretty, are the flowers from the Buddleia