Great Eggfly Butterfly

HI Sukanya and Viv! Those two buckets of rotting santol fruit is still in the garden but the only butterflies they have attracted that I've seen are the eggflies. Haven't seen any other kind of butterflies pay the santol fruit any attention at all, so maybe that wasn't such a good idea. Viv, did you have any luck with your fruit peelings?

Ok. Maybe the rotting mangoes will have a strong smell. The santol fruit sure does. Not sure the odor helps attracts butterflies though. Joe

Sukanya, Great. Same in the garden I go to, not many plants that support butterflies, which are my favorites. Maybe you can get three or four mangoes and put them in a bowl and try it with just a little fruit that way. Might work. No monkeys here in Angeles City though they are in other places here. I was in the garden last night looking for moths. Didn't see any moths but there were several bats flying around. None of them allowed me to take any photos however. (-: Joe

Sukanya, thanks. I would suggest you gather up the fruit and put it in a bucket and let it sit awhile and see if that attracts anything. I think you would be better off though planting flowers that would attract butterflies. The problem with the garden I go to now is that it's mostly green plants with no flowers. I see butterflies flying around all the time but they rarely sit down anywhere. It seems to be better in that garden for butterflies in the fall when some of the plants start blooming and have flowers. Joe

Viv. Thanks. Good luck with the fruit peelings. You should get some takers on that. The garden I go to has several large Santol trees and they are full of fruit that fall off the trees. The caretaker goes around and picks it up. There are two large buckets of it in the garden now and they are attracting some butterflies. That rotting fruit has a strong odor to it.