Butterflies Abound at Lake Barkley SRP

This week at Lake Barkley we have seen an abundance of butterflies around the park.  Over the past two years, Lake Barkley has been converting some of its landscaping to native wildflowers and those native plants seem to be attracting lots of butterflies.  Tiger Swallowtails, Black Swallowtails, Spicebush Swallowtails, and Red Spotted Purples seem to be the most abundant this week and we have seen them visiting Butterfly Milkweed, Purple Coneflower, Blazingstar, and Buttonbush.

This Tiger Swallowtail butterfly was spotted on the Wilderness Trail