Perennial & Biennial Wild Flower Meadows (Conservation)
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2020 7:19 am
At about August time of year, one was sometimes seeing annual wild flower meadows raked bare and seed deposited for next years flush of pretty flower heads.
Were there any United Kingdom butterfly species, that had evolved, to primarily complete their life cycles, needing and using native, annual wild flowers, rather than native perennial (came back year after year from same root source) or biennial (flower and seeded biannually after sowing)?
(by needing to complete a life cycle, I was referring mainly to caterpillar (larval) food plants that were needed as a food source, rather than flower head nectar for butterflies.
Were there any United Kingdom butterfly species, that had evolved, to primarily complete their life cycles, needing and using native, annual wild flowers, rather than native perennial (came back year after year from same root source) or biennial (flower and seeded biannually after sowing)?
(by needing to complete a life cycle, I was referring mainly to caterpillar (larval) food plants that were needed as a food source, rather than flower head nectar for butterflies.