Miami Blue

13 years ago

I just spotted a Miami Blue in my garden. I tried to take a photo of it and this is the best I could do since it was fluttering around all the time. It was hovering around my plumbago and sat down a few times but not for long.
I've been looking to add more butterfly plants to my garden reading up on appropriate plants for Florida and my question is; does anyone know if there are specific plants that this particular butterfly prefers?
I read that it's an endangered species here in Florida so I'd like to do my best to create a habitat for it.

Look in the middle of the photo, straight under the broom pan handle (I was collecting rain water yesterday) :-) and you should be able to see it, although a little fuzzy.

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Comments (4)

MissSherry
13 years ago
After studying the picture, I finally saw the butterfly! :)

Are you sure it's a Miami blue and not a cassius blue? If it's a Miami blue, you've really been visited by a rarity! Congratulations!!

Sherry
bananasinohio
13 years ago
Contact Jaret Daniels at U of Florida (http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/mcguire/profiles/daniels.htm). He runs the Miami Blue program (or at least used to). He would be able to give you all kinds of information. He is very nice.
-Elisabeth
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SweetSerenity
Original Author
13 years ago
Seeing photos of the Cassius blue I must say that I'm not sure that it is a Miami blue. They do look the same to an untrained eye. Especially since it wasn't sitting still! :-)
My guess is that it's probably a Cassius blue.
I'll be looking for it tomorrow and maybe I'll can get better photos.
Thanks!
fighting8r
13 years ago
My first thought too was cassius blue. Especially since it is on blue plumbago, we've lots of them on ours. They lay eggs on the flower buds.

I've seen photos, but I honestly dont know without looking it up what a Miami Blue looks like off the top of my head.