You can design and create a garden in your back yard to attract butterflies; a fascinating creatures. You may need four things that suitable for butterflies habitat: Food , Water, a place to raise the young and shelter.
Let starts.
1. Choose a location for butterfly garden. They prefer a sunny location with full sunlight will warms them when they are at rest and many plants that provide nectar or are host plants need full sun for best growth.
2. Check with your local area that which species of butterfly were found. Get more information about them from the good resource such as The department of Natural resources. Knowing that butterfly might visit your garden and they will help you to choose nectar and hosts plants.
3. Choose and plants food source for butterflies. They drink nectar from flowers with a long tube-like proboscis. A plants like butterfly bush, cornflowers salvia and roses will draw a variety of butterflies. Also they will feed on the juice of overripe and rotting fruit. You can put a shallow dish in garden to hold a overripe fruit to attract more of them.
4. Add more water source. Butterflies sip from shallow puddles to absorb minerals. You can put a small dish or a bird bath filled with sand and rocks and then put water enough to moisten the sand. This is a simple way to create a butterfly puddle.
5. Besides nectar plants butterflies will seek out more plants that will provides nourishment for their young. Try to plant a larval host plants. A monarch butterflies lay eggs on milk plants and the young caterpillars will feed on leaves and stems and Black swallowtail butterflies seek out plants like parsley lilac and funnel.
6. Provide their shelter for their visit. Shelter can be simple like a tall bush, shrub or a tree near the butterfly garden. For example, a lilac bush can double as a nectar source and means of shelter. Other good choices would be willow trees , or tall ornamental grasses.
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