Butterfly-bush
Butterfly-bush - Buddleja davidii
A familiar garden shrub with long, drooping, purple flowers.
Roadsides, waste ground and walls.
In flower during May, July, August and September.
Deciduous perennial.
Established as a wild plant throughout Britain but more frequent in the south.
Fairly frequent and probably increasing in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 17 of the 617 tetrads.
Peter Smith
Welford Road, Leicester
10 August 2012
Graham Calow
Witherley
15 July 2015
Graham Calow
Sapcote
01 September 2014
Graham Calow
Near High Cross
11 July 2016
Steve Mathers
GUC (Lboro south to Bridge 32)
29 July 2016
Steve Mathers
River Soar (Watermead Way to S Abbey Park)
24 August 2016
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Aphis gossypii
Thie aphid Aphis gossypii is highly polyphagous feeding on a wide range of plants. It does not usually host alternate, reproducing all year round on its chosen host. The body length of adult Aphis gossypii apterae ranges from 0.9 to 1.8 mm. Wingless females of Aphis gossypii are usually blackish green or dark green mottled with lighter. In hot conditions or when crowded they are smaller, and these dwarf forms are a very pale The cauda is variable in colour from quite pale to dusky to quite dark but it is usually paler than the siphunculi.
Amauromyza (Cephalomyza) verbasci
The larva of the Agromyzid fly Amauromyza verbasci causes a blotch mine on the upper surfaces of the leaves of Mullein, Common Figwort and Butterfly-bush. The mine is pale initially but turns brown later. Frass in sizeable dispersed grains.