BROWARD COUNTY BUTTERFLY CHAPTER

PLANT grandiflora at Juno Dunes Natural Area, Palm Beach County, . The flowers are relatively OF THE large for the genus. The needle shaped leaves are MONTH aromatic. It is threatened due to habitat loss. It lives in Jan & Feb 2019 coastal scrub dunes.Wiki

Contents Reminders Butterflies & Native For Hope to see you! Wildlife Garden Chapter Monthly Meetings for Amazon Users Sun Jan 20, 2019, 2-4pm & Sun Feb 17, 2019, 1-4pm Please order thru website Joe-pye Weed. Nectar source of the Eastern www.browardbutterflies.org Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Butterflies BCBC earns 4% of your purchases. Field Trip, Sarasota Butterfly Chapter, Sarasota FL Silent Auction New Location Chapter Meetings Please ID donated plants. We accept natives and non- Reminders invasive plants. Rosemary Chart of Natives Skippers That Tend To Signing In Notebook Attract Members & guests, please The Swallowtail that Dazzles print your name. As a guest, Editor: P. Rossi please give us your email address to receive our news- Feedback: [email protected] letters.

Please take your Plants do- nated at each event or Coming Attractions meeting home if not auctioned off. BCBC presents & Don’t forget, we

New Location for Chapter Meetings

The Eastern Tiger meet at Long Key in January! Swallowtail Butterfly Long Key Nature Center. Address . 3501 SW 130th Avenue, Davie, FL 33330. The center is Papilio glaucus, one of off SW 36th Court which is opposite Flamingo the most familiar . Gardens on South Flamingo Rd. swallowtails in the U.S. Hope to see you!

MONTHLY MEETINGS Sunday Jan 20, 2019, 2 to 4pm ‘The many animals as Pollinators’ Kelli Whitney, Naturalist Sunday Feb 17, 2019, 1 to 4pm ‘Cuba Butterflies vs South Florida Butterflies’, Dr. Marc Minno, Entomologist, Author

Meetings are at 3501 SW 30th Ave. Davie, FL 33330. Take Flamingo Rd south off I-595. The center is off SW 36th Court opposite Flamingo Gardens. Take the first left turn.

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Rosemary Chart of Natives Conradina brevifolia Shortleaf False Rosemary This species grows: Polk, Highlands Counties, Lake Wales Ridge Peninsular FL. Federally endangered

Conradina canescens False Rosemary Found on the gulf coast of Mississippi, Alabama, FL, as well as in sand hills of central FL. Most wide- spread species in genus

Conradina etonia Etonia Rosemary Verified in Putman County SKIPPERS THAT TEND TO ATTRACT FL Federally endangered While on the Tallahassee September field trip, was Conradina cygniflora no pic intrigued by the various skippers that perched along the Verified in Putman County dirt trail. Am familiar with some skippers in south FL 2009 Florida, Horace’s Duskywing, the Long-tailed, Three- spotted, Fiery, Brazilian, Florida Duskywing, Tropical, Common-checkered, Mangrove & possibly, others. Conradina glabra Apalachicola False Rose- Found in Liberty County FL There were many skippers at the forest edges in Apala- mary chicola, the Long-tailed Skipper, the Least Skipper, the Eufala, Delaware and Dion among many which I saw. L-Least Skipper , R-Eufala, Later it was hard to identify the pictures. It is so nice to Below-Three-Spotted Skipper see such a variety of Skipper life on the variety of wildflowers in the fall season! Conradina grandiflora Largeflower Rosemary Grows along the Atlantic coast of FL Federally endangered

Conradina verticilata Cumberland False Rose- Found in KY and TN. mary Federally endangered

False Rosemary, Conradina canescens found in So FL, planted in the Small Nature Trail is a genus of flowering plants in the mint family, . Its common name: false rosemary, rarely, short leaf rosemary. There are 7 species of Conradina, all native to the southeastern United States, preferring well-drained or sandy soils. Wiki Sarasota FL field trip, Sept. 2018. Sarasota Butterfly Chapter. Special thanks Karen Rosenbeck, Karen Finch

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CINDY JENKINS BCBC TEACHES 4-H; CREW of MASTER GARDENERS at WORK

Butterflies & Native Plants for Wildlife. The butterfly garden spot was conceived in July when the Broward County Extension Director Lorna and Julio, Education, Training Specialist wished to improve the existing gardens. This spot was chosen because the nature trail was already in place. It was a native teaching post of Dr. Mike Orfanedes under his wisdom and guidance. So the garden initiated by Pat, now has butterfly host plants, examples of scrub habitat & FL Keys fauna, certainly perfect for teaching 4-H or Master Gardeners what home gardens could look like; a way to conserve water. Also it will teach what types of butterflies, insects and birds may visit. Monarchs, Queens, Atalas, bees, have already stopped by. ‘The Small Nature Trail’ demo garden was used November as a 4-H event. People to thank: Lorna Bravo, UF/IFAS Broward County Extension, Amy Reilly, Master Gardener Coordinator, Sandy Fernandes, Cindy Jenkins, Amy Snyder of BCBC, Terri Bitter-Ward, Broward Parks, other master gardeners who helped.

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The Swallowtail That Dazzles

The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail was one of the butterflies seen in the Apalachicola Forest, on the many field trips organized in September by NABA at the members meeting expose`to the alluring Apalachicola woods replete with wildflowers. All just perhaps ten miles from Tallahassee. The Giant, Black and Palamedes swallowtails flittered about. All of them so large, couldn’t help staring. The host plants of the Eastern Tiger are listed perhaps further north as Sweetbay, Basswood, Tulip tree, Birch, Ash or Cottonwood (entnemdept.ufl.edu). However in South Florida counties, the host plants include Red Ma- ple, Acer rubrum and Red Bay, Persea borbonia.(Checklist for South Florida Butterflies). The forked appearance of the swallowtails' hindwings, which can be seen when the butterfly is resting with its wings spread, is responsible for the com- mon name swallowtail. Adults are yellow with four black bands on the front wings. The innermost band connects with the median band of the hind wing. The wing margins are black with a row of yellow spots. Some females are black with a marginal row of yellow spots. In many areas of the North, most females are black. Faint remnants of the typical tiger banding pattern are visible on the undersides of the front wings of the black form. The hind wings of the black form are powdery blue above with a wavy black band dividing the powdery blue areas. Interestingly, dark females are prone to produce dark daughters while yellow females usually have yellow mothers. Dark females have a better chance of surviving long enough to lay eggs than yellow females. The reason why is that dark females look much like the poisonous pipevine swallowtail. The pipevine swallowtail has an extremely bitter taste. If a bird or other predator tries to eat one, it rarely goes back for seconds or even any butterfly that looks like it. (GA Dept. of Natural Sciences),

Newly laid eggs are green but soon turn greenish-yellow. Young larvae are dark and resemble bird droppings. Older larvae are green with a swollen thorax and a transverse band of faint blue dots on each abdominal segment. There is a black transverse stripe edged with yellow anteriorly between the first and second abdominal segments. Larvae also have a single pair of false eyespots on the metathorax, derived from the thorax, a part of the caterpillar body where the legs are attached. (entnemdept.ufl.edu); Wiki. They are a special sight when male butterflies ‘puddle’ and cats deceive predators to resemble white, brown droppings, or do defensive acid secretions if bothered. All this to survive;emerge into a large flickering beauty!

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Yellow Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Dark Female, Female, GardenwithWings.com http://www.nhptv.org/

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