Butterfly Bush

[Chipchopper]

My Buddleia bush, which has been in full bloom, for a couple of weeks
and would normally be a hive of activity, with bees and butterflies. This year, I have not seen a single bee or butterfly on it.
Any others noticed this.

[webbo3]

I've got a couple of big Echinops and they are very late flowering this year and normally they are covered in bees and butterflies,

[Chipchopper]

webbo, excellent bee plants, this vert strange.
Please keep us posted

[andres]

Only remarked on this a couple of days ago. Not seen a single butterfly and only a couple of bees. No wasps either.

[maggiebee]

Very few butterflies here but I have a clover patch and there seems to be a bee on every flower. Was going to cut the grass but will wait till the clover dies back.

[Chipchopper]

Very strange indeed. it all seems out of kilter.
I've seen several species of butterflies, but in much smaller numbers

[webbo3]

The purple ones are starting to flower (Veitch's Blue), the white ones are nowhere near flowering and even the lavender was late flowering.

[Barmaid]

We have loads of butterflies, bees and wasps on the buddleia, lavender and other flowers. Lovely to see. The lime trees are just full of bees - cannot hear yourself think from the constant buzz if you stand underneath them.

[Chipchopper]

Seems strange to me how it's low in places but higher in others, in spite of efforts to plant bee friendly plants

[webbo3]

A white one https://ibb.co/kStL1tD

The purple ones.
https://ibb.co/CtHs7B9

[Chipchopper]

Just yesterday the bees, etc, appeared to be making a slow return to the buddleia

[murraymints]

they are all in my garden !

[DTCwordfan]

quite a few here too.....

[DTCwordfan]

along with flying rats.....

[douglas9401]

Ours is yet to flower here in the frozen north.

[haras2]

Last year. there were a lot of Red Admirals on the Buddleia but not until August
I think different seasonal weather in different parts of the country could account for it.