1. Butterfly Gardening - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Butterfly gardening is a growing school of gardening, specifically wildlife gardening, that is aimed at creating an environment that attracts butterflies, as well as certain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_gardening

Butterfly gardening From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article does not cite any references or sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (August 2007) Contents Why people butterfly garden Problems Butterfly-attracting plants See also ... External links For video game, see Butterfly Garden Butterfly gardening is a growing school of gardening , specifically wildlife gardening , that is aimed at creating an environment that attracts butterflies , as well as certain moths , such as those in the Hemaris genus. Butterfly gardening is often aimed at inviting those butterflies and moths to lay eggs as well. Because some plants are not fed upon by adult butterflies, the caterpillar host should also be planted for a bigger population of butterflies. Butterflies typically feed on the nectar of flowers, and there are hundreds of such plants that may be planted to attract them, depending on the location, time of year, and other factors. In addition to the planting of flowers that feed butterflies, other means of attracting them include constructing ¨butterfly houses¨, providing sand for puddling, water, and other resources or food items, including rotten fruit. edit Why people butterfly garden Some people only like to look at the butterflies, while others like to take pictures as well. Others try to help the butterfly population by planting native plants which rare or

2. Butterfly Gardening * Butterfly Garden * Rose Franklin's Perennials Butterfly gardening makes a great summer hobby. In this article, Rose Franklin tells you how to create a butterfly garden and lists lots of butterfly attracting plants. http://www.butterflybushes.com/butterfly_gardening.htm

Butterfly Gardening by Rose Franklin February 12, 2001 Butterflies are among the most beautiful insects on earth-and one of the few insects we desire to see in our flower gardens! Their colorful wings add a decorator's touch to our gardens as they flutter from flower to flower in search for nectar. Most gardeners wish to attract more butterflies to their property and thus, butterfly gardening is becoming a popular summer hobby. Attracting butterflies to your garden involves essentially two things: (1) planting the right flowers in the right place, and (2) refraining from the use of chemical insecticides. To attract more species of butterflies, you could add to the butterfly garden a mud puddle, a bowl of rotting fruit, and/or mammal manure. With or without these additional lures, however, many butterflies will be enticed to visit a garden that provides desirable nectar sources which are not poisoned with insecticides. The location of your property plays a role in determining how many butterfly species might visit your garden for flower nectar. Some species of butterflies prefer open areas while others elect to reside near wet meadows or deciduous forests. Thus, a person living in an open rural area, near a stream or swamp, and adjacent to a deciduous forest will likely attract more species of butterflies to his or her garden than will a city dweller.

3. Butterfly Gardening Pollinators are a vital part of a healthy environment. Butterflies are a beautiful part of our gardens. Flowers that provide nectar and caterpillar hostplants can be grown in http://xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/butterfly_gardening_fact_sheet_xerc

4. Butterfly Gardening How To How to create a butterfly garden. Butterfly Gardening Information provided by BIRDSN-GARDEN.COM in Austin, TX http://www.birds-n-garden.com/butterfly_gardening.html

Butterfly Gardening Information provided by BIRDS-N-GARDEN.COM in Austin, TX Gardening to attract butterflies is easy and rewarding. You will want to provide food for the larval stage of the butterfly life cycle. Nectar plants will keep the adult butterfly feeding in your gardens. Location In a sunny protected area of your grounds. Away from traffic. Not the choice for curb gardening. Out of heavy winds. Butterflies won't stay where they are being blown around. (See ideas about protected islands below.) Leaves and Nectar Use the internet to learn the larval food plants for the butterflies in your area. If caterpillars are quickly destroying a favorite area of your garden, consider buying more of the same plants and relocating the caterpillars to a Larval Zone. Butterflies like open single blooms and double blooms. Create a long growing season of blooms for more viewing during the year. My current backyard abounds with colorful butterflies even though it lacks some of the requirements for successful butterfly gardening. I have a relatively small backyard that gets mowed regularly versus an undisturbed meadow filled with native plants. I live in a windy part of the country but I create wind blocks with a little landscaping know-how. Currently I have too few host plants for the larval stages of development but plenty of nectar producing flowers for my butterflies. There is always room for improvement. How I solved a few problems in my own yard PROBLEM IMPROVEMENT too much wind created windbreaks with cherry laurels, cypress, beauty berries, etc.

5. Butterfly Gardening (Green Pages) [Montreal Botanical Garden] Butterfly Gardening site planning, choosing plants, knowing the environment, nectar plants, host plants, garden composition, bibliography, links http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/jardin/en/info_verte/papillons/papillons.htm

6. Butterfly Garden: Articles On Creating Butterfly Gardens: Plans, Plants, Attract Articles on butterfly gardens, plants, and attracting butterflies to your garden. http://www.thebutterflysite.com/gardening.shtml

Your #1 Site for Butterfly Info on the Internet! Gardening - Great tips for attracting butterflies to your butterfly garden! Butterfly Gardening Gardening l Life Cycle l Rearing l l Monarchs l Pictures l Activities Fun Facts l Live Releases l Butterfly Specimens l Gift Sites l Links l Store l HOME Welcome butterflies to your garden with a Butterfly House Butterfly Feeders help attract butterflies to your garden. Butterflies are some of the most beautiful and interesting creatures on Earth. A butterfly garden is an easy way to see more butterflies and to help them, since many natural butterfly habitats have been lost to human activities like building homes, roads and farms. It is easy to increase the number and variety of butterflies in your yard. Simply grow the plants the caterpillars like to eat, and plants that adult butterflies feed on! We can help - we have LOTS of informative articles to help you: Creating a Butterfly Garden (the basics to get started) Butterfly Nectar Plants (plants adult butterflies like) Butterfly Host Plants (plants caterpillars like) Butterfly Gardening by Area (what butterflies live in your area) ... Butterfly Behavior To Watch in the Garden (feeding, basking, etc)

7. MBG: The Butterfly House - Butterflies Directions for creating and maintaining a butterfly garden, including a list of host and butterfly plants. http://www.butterflyhouse.org/butterflies/butterflygardening.aspx

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8. Monarch Watch : Butterfly Gardening : Introduction Monarch Watch is a cooperative network of students, teachers, volunteers and researchers dedicated to the study of the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus and its spectacular http://www.monarchwatch.org/garden/index.htm

M o n a r c h W a t c h Butterfly Gardening BUTTERFLY GARDENING Introduction Creating a Garden A Teacher's Guide ... Order Introduction Scientists, environmentalists, and politicians have brought habitat destruction and the cost that has for wildlife to the attention of people around the world. In response, many people have begun work to preserve the natural areas that still exist and to restore other areas that once served as home to wild animals and plants. Schools can also take part in this preservation and restoration movement by making their yards more friendly to wildlife. A beautiful and fun way to do that is to plant a butterfly garden. For people, like you, who are interested in monarchs, a butterfly garden is an easy way both to see more monarchs and to contribute towards their conservation. And if you plant a garden, you'll be able to watch not only monarchs but also many other butterfly species right in your backyard. A butterfly gardener reaps many rewards. People usually enjoy the same colorful flowers butterflies prefer, so a butterfly garden can win compliments from you and your neighbors. If you plant a butterfly garden where there used to be lawn, there is also less grass to mow, which means less work with the lawn mower as well as less air and noise pollution if your mower runs on gas. Butterflies like lots of different plants, so creating a garden adds biological diversity to your yard. Diversity can reduce populations of pest insects by making it harder for them to find their host plants. Butterflies also often like native plants. Including those species in your garden usually means less maintenance, since those plants are used to the natural weather conditions in your area. Butterflies themselves are an important part of the ecosystem, and can pollinate many plants.

9. Butterfly Gardening - Plants To Attract Butterflies, Hummingbirds, And Wildlife Attract wildlife to your gardening butterflies, birds, and beneficial insects. http://butterflywebsite.com/butterflygardening.cfm

For the best sources of online shopping for gardening products, click here Butterfly gardening has become one of the most popular hobbies today. What could bring more joy than a beautiful butterfly fluttering around your garden?! Here are some tips to make your garden especially butterfly-friendly. Your first step should be to find out which butterflies are in your area. You can do this by spending some time outdoors with your field guide to see which species are around. You can also check our checklists here Plant your butterfly garden in a sunny location (5-6 hours each day), but sheltered from the winds. Butterflies need the sun to warm themselves, but they won't want to feed in an area where they are constantly fighting the wind to stay on the plants. It is also a good idea to place a few flat stones in your sunny location so the butterflies can take a break while warming up. Butterflies need water just like we do. Keep a mud puddle damp in a sunny location, or fill a bucket with sand and enough water to make the sand moist.

10. EEK! - Butterfly Gardening Butterflies rely on host plants to lay their eggs and to feed on. Learn about these host plants and how to attract butterflies and watch them. http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/insect/butterflygardening.htm

Butterfly Gardening Butterflies are beautiful to watch fluttering about. Ever wonder why they always hang around colorful flowers? Well, flowers, plants and trees provide food for these winged beauties and their young, called caterpillars. You can plant a butterfly garden and attract these "wildflowers with wings" to your own backyard. Here are some tips. Butterflies need sunlight. They are cold-blooded, so they use the sun to warm up their bodies. Pick a sunny spot for your garden and place a few flat stones around so the butterflies can rest while warming up. Butterflies need water just like we do. But, instead of drinking from a faucet, they slurp up moisture from the soil. Butterflies prefer to land on moist dirt or sand on the sides of puddles. Keep a mud puddle damp in your garden, or fill a bucket with sand and enough water to make the sand moist. Don't use pesticides in your garden! Pesticides can harm butterflies, birds and other insects in your garden. Butterflies are attracted to purple orange yellow and red flowers, but they are also attracted to plants where they can lay eggs and that will provide

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12. Butterfly Gardening: How To Attract Butterflies - Butterfly Food Butterfly gardening how to attract butterflies to your garden by planting a variety of flowers. http://www.allfreecrafts.com/nature/butterfly-gardening.shtml

AllFreeCrafts.com "Free crafts, craft projects and patterns to make easy homemade gifts." Free Patterns Holiday Crafts Free Craft Projects Green Crafts ... Newsletter - Archives //SYNTAX: tabdropdown.init("menu_id", [integer OR "auto"]) tabdropdown.init("moonmenu", 3) Free Nature Crafts and Nature Projects ...see more Make a Comment Related Articles: Butterfly Art How to display butterflies as art. Butterfly Food Easy butterfly food and butterfly feeders. Hummingbird Food Make your own hummingbird food. Family Butterfly Book Great reference book to learn more about butterflies and their habitat, including how to care for and raise butterflies in your home or classroom. Beautiful photographs, lots of solid information on how to attract butterflies to your garden or raise them and release them into the wild. Butterfly Feeder Kids, as well as butterflies, will enjoy the bright colors of this butterfly feeder. Just fill with a simple nectar recipe and wait for the butterflies! Butterfly Feeder to buy from Amazon Hang or mount on a 3/4 inch post, this butterfly feeder will keep these beautiful insects close to home. Holds six ounces of nectar in its 6 inch diameter frame. Designed and tested by biologists to assure effectiveness.

13. Butterfly Gardening: Bright And Colorful, Mexican Milkweed Is Easy To Grow With its cheery redorange blooms, Mexican Milkweed is readily grown from seeds, transplants, and cuttings. http://www.suite101.com/content/butterfly-gardening-a120272

14. Butterfly Garden Plant List Names, colors, and sizes of plants used in a butterfly garden in Illinois, USA. http://the-garden-gate.org/bflyplnt.txt

15. Monarch Watch : Butterfly Gardening : Introduction Host plants and gardening tips to attract butterflies. Includes a list of plants that are good for particular species. http://www.monarchwatch.org/garden/

M o n a r c h W a t c h Butterfly Gardening BUTTERFLY GARDENING Introduction Creating a Garden A Teacher's Guide ... Order Introduction Scientists, environmentalists, and politicians have brought habitat destruction and the cost that has for wildlife to the attention of people around the world. In response, many people have begun work to preserve the natural areas that still exist and to restore other areas that once served as home to wild animals and plants. Schools can also take part in this preservation and restoration movement by making their yards more friendly to wildlife. A beautiful and fun way to do that is to plant a butterfly garden. For people, like you, who are interested in monarchs, a butterfly garden is an easy way both to see more monarchs and to contribute towards their conservation. And if you plant a garden, you'll be able to watch not only monarchs but also many other butterfly species right in your backyard. A butterfly gardener reaps many rewards. People usually enjoy the same colorful flowers butterflies prefer, so a butterfly garden can win compliments from you and your neighbors. If you plant a butterfly garden where there used to be lawn, there is also less grass to mow, which means less work with the lawn mower as well as less air and noise pollution if your mower runs on gas. Butterflies like lots of different plants, so creating a garden adds biological diversity to your yard. Diversity can reduce populations of pest insects by making it harder for them to find their host plants. Butterflies also often like native plants. Including those species in your garden usually means less maintenance, since those plants are used to the natural weather conditions in your area. Butterflies themselves are an important part of the ecosystem, and can pollinate many plants.

16. Butterfly Gardening Favorite host and nectar plants, and information on puddling, basking and shelter. http://www.milkweedcafe.com/bflygarden.html

View Cart Nature Shoppe Favor Garden Home ... Seeds Welcome to our Butterfly Gardener's Page...We have added lots of new information! Whether you are gardening on an apartment balcony or a spacious country lot, you can bring butterflies around with a few simple techniques. Please feel free to use the links below to plan and maintain the perfect butterfly and wildlife garden for your space. Basic Design Elements for the Butterfly Garden Butterfly Garden Term Glossary Butterfly Garden Photographs Professionally Designed Garden Plan Diagram ... E-Mail © 1998 - 2009 Milkweed Cafe.com ® / The Favor Garden ® - All Rights Reserved

17. Butterfly Gardening: Plants And Flowers That Attract Butterflies To Your Yard Or If you choose the right plants and set up your garden in an appealing way, you can encourage butterflies to visit and even establish colonies in your area. http://www.suite101.com/content/butterfly-gardening-a54192

18. Butterfly Gardening And Conservation Photographs, diagrams, and types of butterflies. Focuses on butterflies most commonly found in Missouri. http://mdc4.mdc.mo.gov/Documents/8274.pdf

19. Index Butterfly gardening is an informational site on how to plant a garden that attracts butterflies and sustain them throughout the entire lifecycle from egg, to caterpillar to larvae http://butterfly-gardening.com/

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~Attributed to George Carlin home lifecycle gardening nectar plants ... contact Butterfly Gardening It’s a beautiful sunny day. A butterfly flutters in your yard, lazily hopping from one beautiful plant to the next, sipping nectar from a multitude of colorful blossoming flowers. She spots her favorite place to lay her eggs. She lights on this plant and you can see her abdomen curl under a leaf and deposit tiny eggs. The tiny eggs are no bigger than a speck of sand. She does this over and over again till there are many eggs on many leaves.  In a few weeks the eggs hatch into many tiny caterpillars. The next time you spot one of these caterpillars he is big and fat. On a bush nearby you spot the shiny green chrysalis of a Monarch butterfly. As weeks go by you watch as the outer shell become translucent, then transparent and you can actually see the monarch folded up inside.  If you are lucky you can see her emerge! Butterfly gardening is a great benefit to all! Not only will you be attracting and enjoying some of the loveliest creatures on the earth but you are also helping to ensure their survival. With the decrease of open space and the use of pesticides on the rise there are butterflies whose existence is threatened. Even the prolific Monarch butterfly is struggling to find its special milkweed plant for nectar.

20. Johnson County Lawn And Garden>Butterfly Gardening Kansas State University Johnson County Lawn and Garden Butterfly Gardening http://www.johnson.ksu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=117

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