21. Butterfly Gardening Describes how to expand the habitat for butterflies by choosing appropriate plants for home landscapes. The 21 pages provide numerous line drawings and color photos to aid the http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/DG6711.html

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22. Miami Kitchen Gardens - Butterfly Gardening Butterfly Gardening. Butterflies are attracted to nectar plants with strong fragrances and bright colors. Most butterflies will feed on a variety of nectar plants, but each species http://www.miamikitchengardens.com/butterfly-gardening/

Getting Started Basil Dill Fennel ... Contact Us Top Getting Started Basil Dill Fennel ... Contact Us Picture Gallery Organic Vegetable Beds RSS FEEDS News from the Gardens RSS News from the Gardens Comments RSS Butterfly Gardening Butterflies are attracted to nectar plants with strong fragrances and bright colors. Most butterflies will feed on a variety of nectar plants, but each species of butterfly requires specific host plants for laying their eggs and feeding their caterpillars. To attract a variety of butterflies and to get them to stay in your garden, you will need to plant combinations of nectar plants and host plants. The following chart was prepared by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. The chart lists locally available nectar plants, host plants and the names of the butterflies that they will attract. If you would like more information about how to start a butterfly garden, a Miami Kitchen Garden representative will be happy to help. Please email your questions, or call * Must-have plants for the beginner butterfly garden.

23. Butterfly Gifts | Butterfly Jewelry | Real Butterfly Wings Jewelry Butterfly lifecycle education, photos, butterfly gardening and conservation. http://www.obsessionwithbutterflies.com

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24. Butterfly Gardening: What To Grow And Conserve In The Adelaide Region How to use the site. Find your location on the map; View information about the plant community your garden is in; Read about the butterflies that you can encourage to visit http://www.butterflygardening.net.au/

Home Map Plants Butterflies ... Contact How to use the site Find your location on the map View information about the plant community your garden is in Read about the butterflies that you can encourage to visit Use the plant lists to create a butterfly garden Our new book is available now! 'Attracting Butterflies to your Garden: What to Grow and Conserve in the Adelaide Region' Beautifully presented full colour book Full of information about butterfly gardening in Adelaide Funds raised will help butterfly conservation in South Australia Email us to find out about ordering your copy today! More ways to help bring the butterflies back See the Get involved! page Butterfly Conservation SA Inc. Website funded by the Norman Wettenhall Foundation . Site design by Ecocreative

25. The Butterfly WebSite - Butterfly Photos, Butterfly Clipart, Education, Butterfl Extensive collection of butterfly information, including an atlas of butterflies, locations of butterfly gardens and houses, a photo gallery, stories, and information about obtaining grants to make a butterfly garden at your school. http://butterflywebsite.com/

The Butterfly Website is the world's oldest and largest website dedicated to butterflies and moths. Here you'll find hundreds of articles about butterflies and moths, an extensive clipart collection, many photographs, videos, butterfly gardening tips, links to purchase butterflies for your wedding or special event, and a lot more. Don't miss our inspiring stories - over 1,000 beautiful stories - about ways in which peoples' lives have been magically touched by butterflies. Have you ever found an injured butterfly or caterpillar and wanted to help it but didn’t know how? Butterfly Rescue International Making a Butterfly Trap and Insect Trap by Butterfly Rick Attract Birds And Butterflies Using Garden Planters ... New Butterfly Articles (Updated 2/1/10) Live Environmental Newsfeed (Daily) Inspiring Stories (Updated 11/9/10) FREE Clip Art! Learn how to say "butterfly" in over 320 languages here Rick Mikula Butterfly Lecturer Invite Rick to your school organization!

26. Butterfly Gardening Products Butterfly and Bird houses and Feeders. Butterfly Gardening Products Please click on the pictures below to display the products within each subcategory http://www.amazingbutterflies.com/230_garden.html

27. Butterfly Gardens A butterfly garden planned and built by Thurgood Marshall Elementary School. Copy of plans, plants used and butterfly basics. http://copland.udel.edu/~lynneb/butterfly/

Bloom's butterfly garden basics Purpose So you're thinking of creating a raised bed butterfly garden but you don't know where to start? Help is on the way! Students and teachers alike have come from several states to see our raised-bed butterfly garden. When they see it they realize that the most important factor in starting their own garden is TIME and HELP. Don't despair! This type of garden isn't for everyone but there are many alternatives which even the youngest students can accomplish.: Click on an item below to learn more! Click here for raised bed garden Click here to learn about a Walk-Way Garden Click here to learn about a Spot Garden Click here to learn about Life Cycle Gardens ... Click here to see a view of the Marshall Raised Bed Garden This page is brought to you by Lynne Bloom, a second grade teacher at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in the Christina School District at Newark, Delaware. All comments are welcomed. Please send comments to Lynneb@Udel.edu

28. Find Out Which Butterflies Live In Your Area -Maps, More Butterfly Gardening by Area Gardening l Life Cycle l Rearing l Houses Farms l Monarchs l Pictures l http://www.thebutterflysite.com/butterfly-gardening-by-area.shtml

Your #1 Site for Butterfly Info on the Internet! Gardening - Great tips for attracting butterflies to your butterfly garden! Butterfly Gardening by Area 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 Creating a butterfly garden should start with some serious research to learn which kinds of butterflies are native to your area. This will help you determine the Butterfly Nectar Plants and Butterfly Host Plants you will want to plant when creating your butterfly garden. If you live in the United States, you can click on a state on the map below to view a list of butterflies found in that state. Below the map is a list of websites which will help you find adult butterflies found in other countries. Butterflies Listed by State l Butterflies in Other Countries Click on a state on the map below to view a list of butterflies found in that state. Butterflies Found in Other Countries Back Garden Moths This site is designed to encourage the awareness and study of UK macro moths within their local habitats.

29. Butterfly Gardening Getting Started. Plant nectar flowers in masses, not in single plants, to optimize colors and scent and to minimize weeds. Place dark stones in your garden. http://www.bloomingarden.com/butterfly.html

HOME BLOOMIN GARDEN CENTRE Store Hours Current Specials ... BLOOMIN GARDEN CENTRE BUTTERFLY GARDENING BASICS Getting Started Plant nectar flowers in masses, not in single plants, to optimize colors and scent and to minimize weeds. Place dark stones in your garden. They provide a spot where adult butterflies can bask in the sun and warm their bodies. Use colorful plants, especially blues, purples, yellows, pinks with single flowers, to attract butterflies. Choose a sunny location that is sheltered from the wind by trees, shrubs or a building. However, be sure the garden is in a location that will get at least six hours of sun a day. Butterfly Plant Tips Grow plants that nurture all stages of the butterfly life cycle from caterpillar to adult butterfly. Remember host plants that nurture butterfly larvae are often weeds, wildflowers, shrubs and trees native to the area. Nectar flowers provide a source of food for adult butterflies. Select a number of plant varieties so the garden is in bloom all season long. Mix annuals and perennials for optimal effect. Choose flowers that provide a feeding platform. Butterflies must stand on their food.

30. Le Tourisme En Morbihan Presentation of the Vannes Aquarium, the Butterfly Garden, the Victor Pleven and the Insectarium. http://www.incontournables56.com

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31. Butterfly Gardening In Florida Gardens Butterflies are like flowers floating in the air. To make your garden inviting to them means adding a certain magic to your special backyard paradise. http://www.floridagardener.com/butterflies/index.htm

Garden Store The Patio The Exchange Gardening Games ... What You Think of FG Help Us to Keep Growing! Member of : The Garden Writers Association Last Update Butterfly Gardening B utterflies are like flowers floating in the air. To make your garden inviting to them means adding a certain magic to your special backyard paradise. A garden with butterflies (as much as one with lizards, toads, earthworms and other such creatures) is a healthy, balanced and productive garden. In addition to their beauty, the insects of the order Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths and skippers) provide us the service of pollinating the flowers we grow in our gardens to provide us with the seeds and fruits we enjoy. B ecause , by design, butterflies are flyers it is not possible to create a permanent home for these magnificent creatures in your yard, only a way-station where they may stop by to refresh themselves during their everlasting journey. But by providing the carbohydrate-rich drinks they need for their energy intensive flight and the foods their children need to develop into their parents image, they may visit your little slice of Eden to allow you to enjoy their almost ephemeral beauty. B e aware though that just providing these colorful little angels the food and drink they prefer is not enough. No matter how much Buddleia, Milkweed, Sweet Alyssum or other butterfly favorites you may grow in you garden they will avoid it if you are in the habit of using insecticides, weed killers or seed dressings. Yes, some bad bugs may interpret your invitation to the butterflies to apply to them too, but if you give nature a free hand the birds, lizards, frogs, toads, parasitic wasps, ladybugs and other allies will keep the uninvited guests from ruining your garden party.

32. Garden Country Message board for communing with other gardeners. Includes a butterfly garden guide, weed identifier, and e-cards. http://www.gardencountry.com/

Garden Country A garden is a friend you can visit anytime. Forum Gallery ... POD Welcome Garden Country Gardening is more than flowers and plants... It's growing a love for life and taking time to see the beauty around us... and being a friend. Categories GC Gardening Guide Attracting Butterflies Common Weeds Seed Starting Ideas ... Free CSS Templates

33. Butterflygardening.wordpress.com Sept. 17 – I’ve been averaging about 10 to 15 monarchs/day. Sept. 18th – we’re tagging Monarchs. Do it two weeks later next year. Posted in Butterfly Gardening, Monarch, http://butterflygardening.wordpress.com/

34. Paula's Herbs And Plants - Home Specializes in organic herbs. Carries houseplants, ground covers, and seeds. Tips on growing and cooking with herbs, and butterfly gardening. http://paulasherbsandplants.com

Home Home Account Login Checkout Links ... Contact Us Your Cart Module Show Cart Your Cart is currently empty. Products Ferns Ground Covers Herb Plants Herb Seeds ... Perennials Main Menu Home Links Privacy Notice Shipping Information ... How To Place an Order The Catnip is purrrfect! Information Menu Butterfly Gardening Customer Comments Helpful Gardening Tips Herb Companion Plants ... Watering Plants? Join our mailing list Get product updates, special offers E-mail Subscribe Unsubscribe Visitors: Gardening Know How - GardeningKnowHow.com - Informative articles about gardening and all of the things you can do in your garden. top 100 gardening sites Welcome to Paula's Herbs and Plants Paula's Herbs and Plants is a family owned and operated business specializing in herbs . Our herbs are grown to be consumed as well as to be beautiful-therefore, all edible herbs are free of pesticides, herbicides and insecticides Currently we grow around sixty varieties of herbs in the spring, offering some of those year round. We grow six types of mint: Apple Mint Chocolate Mint Lemon Mint Orange Mint Peppermint Pineapple Mint and Spearmint . We have both upright rosemary and the prostrate form of rosemary curly parsley , and flat-leafed parsley bronze fennel and green fennel tarragon

35. Gardening 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 http://butterfly-gardening.com/gardening.html

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ~Attributed to George Carlin home lifecycle gardening nectar plants ... contact Gardening The first step to butterfly gardening is to look around your area and try to identify what butterflies frequent your area. If you don’t see any butterflies you can consult some charts and find out which butterflies are indigenous to your area. Click here to look at a chart of the United States. Once you and have identified which butterflies you would like to plant a garden for, you can go to the HOST/NECTAR CHART and find out what plants will attract these butterflies. Many butterflies have only one host plant that they lay their eggs on. This host plant is the food for the caterpillars. Butterflies are different. Most butterflies take nectar from a variety of flowers. For this reason , when planting a butterfly garden you should plant a wide variety of nectar plants. Butterflies will be attracted to different colors, sizes and shapes. Choose a large area of ground that receives ample sunlight. Prepare the ground by removing weeds, and augmenting the soil with some rich garden soil. PLANT NATIVE Before you pull all the weeds in your yard and buy a bunch of expensive plants from a nursery consult the charts and see which of the “weeds� are actually a source of food for either the caterpillar or butterfly! Butterflies were here on the earth long before man started planting butterfly gardens. Some of the most popular host and nectar plants grow in the wild and are considered weeds or native plants. It’s possible that you don’t even have to invest in plants but instead just stop pulling and spraying the weeds! Clover, lantana, Spanish needle, daisies, black-eyed Susan, thistle, Queen Ann’s Lace and milkweed are just a few of the flowers you will find growing out in fields, along road sides that butterflies flock to. Herbs such as parsley, dill, oregano are also the host plant for some butterflies. Don’t go for an organized, manicured look. Butterflies will be attracted to masses of a variety of color.

36. Birds & Blooms Magazine: Flowers, Birds, Hummingbirds & Butterflies | Birds & Bl A magazine for bird, butterfly and garden lovers with online subscription, email tips list, pictures, contests and products to order. http://www.birdsandblooms.com/

37. Florida Native Plant Society Butterfly Gardening. Many of us enjoy attracting butterflies to our gardens. I often have the sense that they come by chance, but it's not true. http://www.fnps.org/pages/plants/butterflies.php

Join/Renew Donate Home Contacts ... Government Agencies Chapters Citrus Coccoloba Cocoplum Conradina Coontie Cuplet Fern Dade Eugenia Heartland Hernando Ixia Lake Beautyberry Lakela's Mint Live Oak Longleaf Pine Lyonia Magnolia Mangrove Marion Big Scrub Naples Nature Coast Palm Beach Pawpaw Paynes Prairie Pine Lily Pinellas Pineywoods Sarracenia Sea Oats Sea Rocket Serenoa South Ridge Sumter Suncoast Sweet Bay Tarflower Univ. of Central Florida Member Resources Contact another member Address Changes Contacts ... Web Administration Butterfly Gardening Many of us enjoy attracting butterflies to our gardens. I often have the sense that they come by chance, but it's not true. We can encourage them by meeting their needs. Plant larval foods. Many caterpillars, which metamorphose into butterflies, require require specific host plants for food. By selecting particular species, you can provide the basic habitat requirements for specific species that you'd like to see as adults. Since highly preferred hosts may be unattractive or eaten until they have few leaves, plan an out-of-the-way place for these hosts. You might also want to provide host plants for some of the more attractive moths. Plant species with nectar needed by adults.

38. Backyard Wildlife Habitat Guidelines for creating a backyard wildlife habitat. Topics cover backyard birding, butterfly gardening, attracting wildlife, and environmental issues. http://www.backyardwildlifehabitat.info

Home Site Map Habitat Welcome to Backyard Wildlife Habitat.Info, your guide to creating and maintaining a backyard wildlife habitat. Your questions and comments are welcome. Please use either the feedback or the blog link below. Email Webmaster Blog This page last updated Participate in a Bird Count Project FeederWatch Home Page. This is a great activity to do with your grandkids. Plan Your Backyard Wildlife Habitat Winter is the perfect time to plan that Backyard Wildlife Habitat. Include berry bearing trees and shrubs that provide food for migrating and local birds. Blue Girl and Blue Boy Hollies are great choices. You must plant at least one male if you are going to have holly berries. Make sure the sex of the plant is marked on the pot tag. An annual dressing of acid will keep your blue holly blue. Easy to grow. Planning is perhaps the most important step to a successful habitat. A good place to start is to make a list of the birds and other wildlife you want to attract. Choose plants that will attract the species you have chosen. Wildlife Friendly?

39. Butterfly Gardening And Conservation Information about Butterfly Gardening and Conservation. Introduction Butterfly Gardening Swallowtails Sulfurs/Whites Brushfooted http://www.butterflygardeningandconservation.com/

Butterfly Gardening and Conservation Swallowtails Sulfurs/Whites Brushfooted Little ... Web Sites While it may not be possible for us as individuals to save the entire world, we can do some things to improve our little corner of it - our own property and our neighborhoods. One way we can do this is to grow plants on our property that are native to our region. This will help our ecosystem by providing quality food and shelter to local wildlife, including butterflies. If you are new to butterfly gardening, I suggest you start reading the articles in my ' Articles ' section, such as the Introduction article. If you already have some knowledge of butterfly gardening, you may want to start looking at the pages set up for individual butterfly and plant species. Spring is coming! Last summer was a bad butterfly year, at least for my garden. I hope this coming season will be much better! Unfortunately the garden doesn't look at nice now because of the fencing we had to put around it to protect the plants from the dog. Mayb someday we will be able to get something that looks a bit nicer! I've started a new site at ButterflySonatas.com

40. Butterflies And Butterfly Gardening In West Virginia Information on hibernation boxes, host plants, food and habitat. http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/wildlife/butterfl.htm

Butter flies and Butterfly Gardening in West Virginia Wildlife Agriculture and Natural Resources Home Page Norma Jean Venable WVU Extension Service Natural Resources Specialist December 1999 Planting gardens with flowers that attract butterflies is a natural way to attract these lovely creatures to your yard, garden, patio, or even window sill. Brightly colored butterflies provide interest to your surroundings and are also effective crop and flower pollinators. Your butterfly garden will also attract birds and other wildlife. Before you begin your butterfly garden it is important to know something about butterflies and about their life cycles, biology, and behavior. Butterfly Life Cycle All butterflies have the same general life cycle, consisting of four life stages: egg, larva (the caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult (the butterfly). Each stage has special food and environmental needs. The cycle begins when butterflies deposit eggs, which they may do in the spring, summer, or fall. Eggs differ in size and shape depending on the species. Butterflies can lay anywhere from 200 to 1,500 eggs depending on the species. Some are laid singly, some in clusters. A good nectar source is important to the adult's ability to produce large numbers of eggs. In most cases, eggs hatch within a few days of being deposited. Once a caterpillar is full size, it enters the pupal or chrysalis stage. Using silk produced by silk glands, the caterpillar attaches itself to a plant (or other object). Some butterflies, such as skippers, pupate inside a thin covering of silk and leaves. The caterpillar stays still for about a day as the pupal skin forms under the caterpillar skin. Then the old skin splits open and the pupa emerges. Pupae of some kinds of butterflies can be green or brown. The pupae of monarch butterflies are bright green.

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