Subject: Butterfly Mud Recipe
Date: May 6 19:06:12 2004
From: Hugh Jennings - hughbirder at earthlink.net


I attended the ABA Convention at McAllen, TX last week. One of the programs was on Butterfly ID. It involved a one hour lecture and a four trip to the Santa Ana NWR butterfly gardens. 60 butterfly species were recorded. One of the leaders gave us a recipe for a mixture that butterflies love. I thought some of you might be interested in it and have included it below.

Butterfly Mud Recipe

This is a recipe for a mixture that butterflies love, but squirrels don't.

3 Bananas (mushy ones that are old or put bananas in freezer for
1+ days they will be mushy when removed)
1 Cup of Sugar
One-half Bottle of Beer (drink the other half)

Mix this concoction and put it in a container, e.g. a bottle or jar,
but do not seal it tightly and let it ferment. If sealed tightly the
container will blow up from pressure build up during
fermentation. It is okay to drink this before it ferments, but not after.

In Texas, they cut a 1 to 2 ft. mesquite log in half tie wire or rope to
each end and hang it from a tree branch.
Put some of this mud in the trough. Any log cut in half and hollowed out
to form a trough will do.

Hugh Jennings

Bellevue, WA