Ruby-throated Hummingbird – Lake Blalock South Carolina
A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris feeds from a Tall Thistle Cirsium altissimum in the buffer zone of Lake Blalock in Upstate, South Carolina.
Monarch Butterfly – Lake Blalock South Carolina
A Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus shares a Tall Thistle Cirsium altissimum with a variety of bees in the buffer zone of Lake Blalock in Upstate, South Carolina.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird – Lake Blalock South Carolina
A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird Archilochus colubris feeds from a Jewelweed Impatiens biflora in the buffer zone of Lake Blalock in Upstate, South Carolina. This buffer zone is intended to serve as naturalized erosion suppression for the lake, a water supply for the Spartanburg Water System. Additionally, native vegetation within the buffer zone encourages proliferation of wildlife.
