{"id":30442,"date":"2022-08-21T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30442"},"modified":"2022-08-21T10:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T08:47:02","slug":"buddleja-davidii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=30442","title":{"rendered":"Buddleja davidii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the few plants in my garden which isn’t edible is my large Buddleja davidii<\/em> (butterfly bush \/ sommerfuglbusk), a wonderful entomental (loved by insects and an ornamental appreciated by Homo sapiens<\/em> too!). It is strategically placed beneath the balcony so that I can look down from above. As chance has it, I had also planted old man’s beard \/ tysk klematis (Clematis vitalba<\/em>) to climb up onto the balcony. The latter is equally popular with late summer pollinators, mainly hoverflies. So this is one of the best spots for watching and photographing the local insect life. However, after coming into flower 2-3 weeks ago there were no butterflies, but a rare 20C day brought them out and both painted lady (tistelsommerfugl; the first since the bumper year two years ago and only the second recorded this summer in Tr\u00f8ndelag county), red admiral (admiral) and comma \/ hvit C were out yesterday! But it’s at night that the butterfly bush is covered with pollinators, notably an estimated 200 large yellow underwing moths (hageb\u00e5ndfly)\u00a0<\/p>\n