Thursday, May 23, 2024

Honeysuckle

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly On Honeysuckle
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly 
on The most Gigantic Honeysuckle Bush I've ever seen. It was a busy place for bees and butterflies. This Honeysuckle had a most powerful fragrance today.
The most gigantic Honeysuckle Bush I've ever seen.
It was covered in bees and butterflies. Honeysuckle has fragrance day and night but exudes its scent most powerfully during the evening.
Bush Honeysuckle with Hoverfly, also called flower fly, or syrphid fly, resemble wasps or bees but do not bite or sting. The larvae of many hover flies are predatory on aphids, so I’m glad to see them in my garden.

Mandarin Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle Vine Budding
Honeysuckle Vine Flowering
This a Honeysuckle vine, I found growing in the woods, near water, in Vermont. 

Honeysuckle vine, Lonicera.

Honeysuckles are arching shrubs or twining vines in the family Caprifoliaceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. Approximately 180 species of honeysuckle have been identified.
Sometimes called “woodbine.” The flower, seed, and leaves are used for medicine. The honeysuckle flower is commonly used to help ease the flu, colds and sore throat. Honeysuckle is also used for urinary disorders, headache, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer. Some people use it to promote sweating, as a laxative, to counteract poisoning, and for birth control.
Honeysuckle essential oil is one of the most popular products derived from this plant, for medicinal uses as well as hair and skin care.

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