Butterfly Host Plants: Buckwheat & Gray Hairstreaks -- SoCalNPG -- Ep.24
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- This virtual tour is of the Gray Hairstreak and its host plant or food plant, California buckwheat. Part of a series on butterfly gardening, it shows how to attract butterflies to your native garden by planting butterfly host plants.
The Gray Hairstreak uses a variety of host plants: buckwheats (eriogonum), mallows, & legumes. Use California native plants to attract these and other butterflies to your California garden. The Gray Hairstreak also has an interesting, hip-grinding, defense tactic!.
You greatly increase your chances of attracting butterflies to your garden if you plant butterfly food plants. In most cases these are native plants. Butterflies will lay eggs on the host plant, the eggs will become caterpillars which will eat the host plant. After they pupate, they'll emerge, in your backyard, as butterflies and the cycle will begin again.
Really appreciate your videos, especially this one. They are short, but packed with information, the music is soft, not overbearing, and your narration is at the perfect volume. I loved the quick shots of California buckwheats, an under-used California native plant. Thank you!
Stuart, I’m glad you liked it and really appreciate your feedback!
people think I'm crazy because they can't see the tiny little blue butterflies that I'm chasing all around the garden. The big ones are wonderful as well, but there is a special place in my heart for those tiny little blue butterflies.
Do you know what kind of blue butterfly it is?
I watched one laying eggs on Rose of Sharon in my yard. I've seen up to 3 at once this year so far. They say they are rarely seen more than one or two on a butterfly count.
I just bought a gigantum and grande rubescens buckwheat. Anxious for them to grow and see some different butterflies next spring. In Ventura.
What do you do to protect them in winter time? Or do you simply treat them as annuals and replace them the following spring?