Friday, May 16, 2014

Quisqualis indica and Lantana - Amazing Butterfly Attractants

It is very evident that Quisqualis indica (Rangoon creeper) and Lantana camara provide plenty of opportunities for viewing beautiful butterflies that flutter into the garden.

 
Double-petaled Quisqualis indica


  It exudes a lovely fragrant smell for a perfumed garden.

 
 A female Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Egg Fly)



The Lesser Gull Butterfly - Cepora Nadina



A butterfly 'painted lady' reposing on the foliage of Quisqualis indica.




A big shrub of  Lantana camara (sunset)






A butterfly 'painted lady' sipping nectar from the numerous florets. She is simply  spoilt for choice,
 
 
Zizula hylax pygmaea (Pygmy Grass Blue)


A male Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Jacintha Egg Fly)


Clear Wing Moth on leaf of Lantana camara.


Other butterflies love the Lantanas too. This Common Grass Yellow (Eurema hecabe contubernalis) was found perched on the underside of lantana leaf.




17 comments:

  1. Fantastic pictures. Like Bougainvillea, I always associate Lantana with hot holiday destinations, but with the added advantage of it attracting butterflies! I have never heard of Quisqualis before. It sounds like a lovely plant with those flowers and scent. Those are fantastic butterflies, so colourful. I really love Grass Yellows and the way they fly. We don't have anything like them over here.

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    1. Thanks Nick. I realise that any post on butterflies is an attractant for you :)

      Quisqualis are great vines which I regularly try to train as standards. Their flowers are attractive and so fragrant.

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    2. lol! Yes, butterflies or chocolate!!

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    3. Now, I see it - eye candy and oral candy! Both are wonderful and bring about instant gratification.

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  2. The Painted Lady butterfly is exquisite - and I love the double-petaled Quisqualis indica with its different shades of flowers.

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    1. The Painted Lady is one of the more colourful butterflies to my garden. There is also the single-petaled Quisqalis which is just as lovely.

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  3. Elsie, you know many butterflies and moths! To say honestly I don't know their names at all, but love to watch how these insects act. The second photo is gorgeous, can imagine how sweet is fragrance of Quisqualis indica! I think a butterfly 'painted lady' is the most I love.

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    1. Hi Nadezda. Actually I only know about the few common ones that flutter by my garden. They add colours to my garden - like flying flowers!

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  5. Oh, same butterfly like in my garden! I try to catch them more. Such a beautiful creatures...

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    1. You must have had many flowers in your garden too!

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  6. I like lantana, that it attracts butterflies is a nice bonus.

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    1. Lantana are prolific bloomers but they can be finicky too as they might suddenly go kaput.

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  7. Painted Lady is exquisitely attractive. I haven’t seen so many various different butterflies in one garden almost at the same time except insectarium in my place. Those beautiful flowers are really paradise for butterflies.

    Yoko

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    1. Planting the right flowers will do the trick, just like ants to sugar and moth to flame. Its a pity that their life span is so short.

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  8. That's very beautiful Rangoon creeper blooms! I have no luck with butterfly! They fly so fast for me to take a snap....sigh...

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    1. The secret is not to don bright colour clothes and move quietly without sudden movements. Often times they are so intoxicated with sipping the sweet nectar that they totally ignore you, even when you move very close. Try to move like a pink panther :)

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