41. Monarch Watch : Butterfly Gardening : Introduction Host plants and gardening tips to attract the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. 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 Site by JpL Updated 22-JUN-00 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.

42. Butterfly Gardening And Conservation Information about many species of butterflies, including their life cycle, and the plants you can grow to attract them. http://www.butterflygardeningandconservation.com

Butterfly Gardening and Conservation Swallowtails Sulfurs/Whites Brushfooted Little ... Web Sites Butterfly gardens planted in a sunny spot with the right mix of nectar flowers and host plants can attract many different species of butterflies to your yard - Swallowtails, Monarchs and many more! You can even watch as they grow and develop through their life cycle - from egg to caterpillar/larva and molting to forming a pupa/chrysalis - to eventually emerge as an adult butterfly! 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. Home Butterfly Gardening Articles Butterfly Species Plants ... Sweet Bay Magnolia

43. Environmental Enhancement With Ornamentals: Butterfly Gardening Cooperative Extension Service. Environmental Enhancement with Ornamentalsbutterfly gardening. Mel Garber, Extension Horticulturist. http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/horticulture/butterfly.html

Horticulture Fact Sheet H-91-004 The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension Service Environmental Enhancement with Ornamentals: Butterfly Gardening Mel Garber, Extension Horticulturist Ornamental plants provide homeowners the means to improve their local environment in many ways. Generally, all that is required is a knowledge of appropriate plant varieties and how to utilize them in the landscape. Butterfly populations can be greatly enhanced by devoting a portion of the landscape to butterfly habitat. In addition, to their natural beauty, butterflies serve as valuable plant pollinators. The three necessary ingredients to attract and maintain butterfly populations all summer are: nectar producing plants larval food plants a shallow pool of water Nectar producing plants provide food for the adults (the butterfly) and are necessary to attract and establish a butterfly population. Characteristics of good butterfly attracting plants include: sweet, pungent and highly fragrant flower

44. Butterfly Gardening And Butterflies Found In Pennsylvania - Butterfly Gift Shop butterfly gardening and butterflies found in Pennsylvania. http://www.butterflyhaven.com/

Welcome Nature Gift Shop  PA Butterflies Butterfly Life Cycle ... Link to us? Apply for site Award Butterfly Haven 159 Hillside Lane New Ringgold, Pa 17960 Schuylkill County USA e-mail - bhaven@ptd.net Butterfly Gardening And Butterflies Found In Pennsylvania Photo taken by Terry Fluke - Cressona Pa - Monarch Butterfly Welcome This website is for those who love butterflies and want to learn more about butterfly gardening! I have included information on butterfly gardening in Pennsylvania and how to identify the butterflies that visit your Pennsylvania garden. Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Hawthorne While you are here, don't forget to visit our new gift shop www.naturepavilion.com Nature, Wildlife, Animal, Insect and Science gifts for all ages! One of the largest nature stores on the web!

45. Butterfly Gardening Articles on butterfly gardening What Butterflies Need Besides Nectar by by Janet Davis. Book Resources The Butterfly Garden by http://colleenscorner.com/Bfly.html

The Garden Path Butterfly Gardening Companion Plants Starting Seeds Tips and Tricks Gardening Photos The Book Shelf Webrings Garden Links GuestBook Articles Butterflies, with their colorful costumes and their frilly aerobatics are beautiful and entertaining visitors to our gardens. On this page you will find tips and suggestions on attracting these lovely creatures to your garden. "To make a wish come true, whisper it to a butterfly. Upon these wings it will be taken to heaven and granted. For they are the messengers of the Great Spirit." ~ Native American Legend ~ Requirements 1. Good Placement. Butterflies are cold blooded creatures and need the sun to warm their wings. For this reason, they prefer a sunny site that is protected from the wind . Large plants and shrubs around the perimeter of a garden will help to provide this protection. A large flat rock in a garden provides a warm spot for basking. They may frequently be seen just sitting on the rock, with their wings spread, soaking up the sun's rays. 2. Nectar Source.

46. Sandra Dee's How To Butterfly Garden If you have any comments or suggestions about this page they are much welcomed, anyinformation you think should be added about butterfly gardening, or if you http://members.aol.com/sndrad67/butterfly/

Main htmlAdWH('7002414', '234', '60'); www.SandraD.com Email: Sandy@SandraD.com Updated: 8/24/01 Wings that can move make the flowers in the sky... With a few simple tips anyone can make their backyard garden a welcomed spot for butterflies. Butterflies add color and beauty to your garden. For some informative links on butterflies, check out the bottom of this page. The Swallowtail butterfly you see pictured here is one of many from my garden. More Butterfly Photo's For a successful butterfly garden you must supply all the components butterflies need to survive on, food, water, direct sunlight, shelter, breeding, and a place to hibernate, while still having a garden that suites your taste and needs. You have a variety of plants to choose from (Annuals, perennials, Trees, shrubs, vines, and even herbs.) The plants that butterflies favor the most for food are often the same ones that gardeners choose for their gardens. See the bottom of this page for a list of 42 of the most popular butterfly nectar plants. To see what type of butterflies you have in your state click here: Butterflies of the United States.

47. Butterflies Of South Australia Index Habitats, biology, checklists, host plants, how to identify South Australian butterflies, data sheets with photos, conservation, habitat restoration, butterfly gardening, references, and links. http://www.chariot.net.au/~rgrund/

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BUTTERFLIES This site is best viewed at a high screen resolution INDEX INTRODUCTION AND HABITATS WHERE HAVE ALL THE BUTTERFLIES GONE ? BUTTERFLY BIOLOGY CHECKLIST AND CONSERVATION STATUS ... REFERENCES AND LINKS NEW LATEST BUTTERFLY PHOTOS SPONSORS Email English to French English to Chinese-simp English to Chinese-trad English to Dutch English to German English to Greek English to Italian English to Japanese English to Korean English to Portuguese English to Russian English to Spanish This site is continuously updated

48. Basic Butterfly Gardening Gardening for Butterflies. For more complete information on butterfly gardening,click here to visit our Butterfly and Moth World website. http://members.aol.com/YESedu/bgarden.html

Gardening for Butterflies by Gary A. Dunn, M.S., F.R.E.S., Y.E.S. Director of Education Introduction There's something magical about the way that ugly little caterpillars can transform themselves into free-spirited butterflies. Butterflies go where they please, and they please where they go! If you would like to significantly increase the chance that butterflies will visit your yard, then butterfly gardening is for you. There are many ways to restore or improve natural butterfly habitats, or to create new ones by designing and creating butterfly gardens. Butterfly gardens can be created in window boxes, small flower beds, entire backyards, vacant lots, parks, and even indoor greenhouses. Are butterflies important? Butterflies are very important in our world and this fact often gets overlooked. There are about 120,000 species of butterflies in the world (10,000 in North America). The aesthetic and entertainment value of butterflies ranks very high for many people, but butterflies are more than beautiful; they are important "threads" that keep the "fabric" of nature from unraveling. Butterflies are extremely important as plant pollinators, and as food for other animals (birds, mammals, amphibians, spiders, and other insects). Butterflies are also very sensitive to changes in the environment, and help warn us about unhealthy changes that are taking place. Only two species of native butterflies have larvae (caterpillars) that are occasional pests: the mourning cloak and the alfalfa butterfly. The cabbage butterfly, an introduced species, is now extremely abundant and sometimes causes damage to cabbage and related crops.

49. Butterfly Gardening In Texas butterfly gardening is a fun, educational way to enjoy nature’s most abundantform of wildlife insects! L-5313 6-99. butterfly gardening in Texas, http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/l-5313.html

L-5313 6-99 Butterfly Gardening in Texas Bastiaan M. Drees Professor and Fire Ant Coordinator John A. Jackman Professor and Extension Entomologist Adult butterflies feed on flower nectar, using it as an energy source for flight and egg production. Some butterflies also are attracted to moist soil at puddles and pond edges and fermenting sap exuding from wounds on tree trunks. Butterflies rest, hidden in foliage of plants, during nights and on cloudy or rainy days. Butterflies are most abundant from spring through fall. Several species of butterfliesmonarchs, cloudless sulfurs and snout butterflies migrate during late summer and fall. Plants that flower throughout the summer and into October and November attract migrating butterflies. Nursery flowers that are excellent nectar sources include white mist flower Eupatorium wrightii , white; blue mist flower Eupatorium greggii , bluish-purple; lantana Lantana spp., in assorted colors; scarlet sage Salvia coccinea , red; Indigo spires sage Salvia butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa , orange; and

50. Butterfly Gardening The environment must be stable and predictable and balancing all the componentsbutterflies require is part of the challenge and art of butterfly gardening. http://pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca/~davids/butterflies.html

51. Butterfly Gardening butterfly gardening. Butterflies are like flowers floating in theair. To make your garden inviting to them means adding a certain http://www.floridagardener.com/butterflies/

Garden Store The Patio The Exchange E-Postcards ... What You Think of FG 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.

52. Butterfly Garden Plants Butterfly Plants for Your Garden. ESSENTIALS FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFULBUTTERFLY GARDEN. Adult BENEFITS OF butterfly gardening. Attract http://www.floridagardener.com/butterflies/butterflyplants.htm

Garden Store The Patio The Exchange E-Postcards ... What You Think of FG Butterfly Plants for Your Garden ESSENTIALS FOR BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL BUTTERFLY GARDEN Adult nectar sources N ) - attract and nourish adult butterflies. Larval host plants H )- attract ovipositing female butterflies, food source for developing larvae. Shelter - vegetation that provides protection from temperature extremes, storms/rain, predators as well as locations for roosting/sleeping. Water source with fountain - allows for easy and consistent access to water for drinking and thermoregulation. GARDEN DESIGN Provide a combination of adult nectar sources and larval host plants - attracts maximum variety of butterfly species; encourages butterflies to remain in your yard, reproduce and build populations instead of just passing through; allows gardener to appreciate all life history stages. Incorporate native plants into the landscape whenever possible - most larval host plants are natives; adapted to region; produces a small but representative extension of the natural ecosystem; attracts other wildlife.

53. Richael's Butterfly Garden Offers Butterfly Garden Expertise, Butterfly Photogra butterfly gardening, photography, garden tours, and information on nectar and host plants. http://butterflybutterfly.com/

Richael's Butterfly Garden Butterfly Gardening Butterfly Garden Summaries ... Contact Thanks for visiting our website. Come again soon. You are visitor # Webmaster Kay E. Rutter kaaee@enter.net Updated May 27, 2004 Richael's Butterfly Garden offers butterfly garden expertise, butterfly photography, and butterfly habitat information. Ron Richael, butterfly naturalist and photographer, is the owner.

54. Butterflies And Butterfly Gardening Butterflies. The word and moths. I have studied and collected Lepidopterafor many years, and in my publication What s a Butterfly? http://www.pcis.net/hwebber/bfly.htm

Butterflies The word Lepidoptera comes from the Greek words lepis (scale) and pteron (wing). We know these "scaly winged creatures" as butterflies and moths. I have studied and collected Lepidoptera for many years, and in my publication "What's a Butterfly? What's a Moth?" you will find more information about the different species. In Nectar Sources you will find a list of plants and their visitors. More info about the Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth: Life Cycle of the Luna Moth or Moon Moth: The little button below will show you to my "Resource Center": This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit Here Find more about Butterflies here My Book Recommendation: "Butterflies and Moths of Missouri" by J. Richard and Joan E. Heitzman Order it at Barnes and Noble or Missouri Department of Conservation P.O.Box 180 Jefferson City, MO 65102 This Great Nature Photography Ring site is owned by Hiltrud Maria Webber Next Page Previous Random Want to join the ring? Get the info This 8i8 butterfly cReW site is owned by Hiltrud M. Webber

55. TMMSH - Butterfly Gardening Central Texas butterfly gardening. Suggestions for making a ButterflyGarden in Central Texas. Make the most of your natural setting. http://www.tmm.utexas.edu/tnhc/invertzoology/butterfly/bfgarden.html

Central Texas Butterfly Gardening Suggestions for making a Butterfly Garden in Central Texas Make the most of your natural setting. Enhance the glades, this is where butterflies like to feed and interact. Leave the old trees and some of the young trees, butterflies like to perch on them and their larvae may use them for food. Leave thick brush under some of the trees, this is where butterflies go on a cold day, or when it rains, and this is where the larvae go to pupate. Leave some lower dead branches on trees for butterfly perches. Leave dead and hollow stumps for insect refuges. Plant a mixture of flowering shrubs and herbs, both native and exotic. Butterflies like edges. Plant low flowers at the edge of a lawn, high flowers at the edge of trees or by a fence. Add some good soil for herbaceous beds. See list of nectar sources and butterfly attractants. Add a seep irrigation system but not a sprinkler system. Sprinkling washes the nectar out of the flowers you have grown for butterfly food. No insecticides, herbicides or fungicides can be used in the butterfly garden, near larval foodplants or adult nectar sources.

56. Butterfly Gardening The butterfly gardening page of the Washington Area Butterfly Club, especiallyfor gardeners in the MidAtlantic region. What is butterfly gardening? http://users.sitestar.net/butterfly/bfgardening/gardening.html

Welcome to the Washington Area Butterfly Club's Butterfly Gardening Page Serving the Northern Virginia, District of Columbia and Maryland areas. Butterfly Gardening in the D.C. Area This new guide was created specifically for beginning gardeners in the D.C. Metro area. It incorporates and expands upon the lists below, explaining what you need to know in order to successfully attract butterflies to your yard or balcony. This guide will open as a PDF file. To navigate, use any of the following methods: click on a bookmark in the frame to the left of the screen to jump to specific chapters or tables within the guide; click a link on the Table of Contents page; or use the scroll bar to the right of the screen. To shrink the bookmarks frame, select the right margin of its frame and push it left until the frame disappears. To return to the WABC page, use your browser's back arrow (generally at the top of the screen) or use the link in the bookmarks frame. Comments are welcome; e-mail the author at Lfarron@compuserve.com

57. Public Butterfly Gardens--D.C. Area If you are inspired to create a garden for butterflies after visiting some of thesedemonstration gardens, check the butterfly gardening Resources Page for an http://users.sitestar.net/butterfly/publicgardens.html

Public Butterfly Gardens Places to visit in the D.C. area D.C. Maryland Virginia If you are inspired to create a garden for butterflies after visiting some of these demonstration gardens, check the Butterfly Gardening Resources Page for an up-to-date list of plant sales and local nurseries which carry butterfly plants. District of Columbia The National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC 20560 The Butterfly Habitat Garden is located on the east side of the building, along 10th Street between the Mall and Constitution Avenue, and continues along the Mall side of the museum. This garden is perhaps the most highly recommended in the area. In spite of its urban location, some 20 butterfly species have been recorded there; nevertheless, this is not a garden to visit expecting to see large numbers of butterflies. But as an educational display, it is excellent. The garden includes simulations of 5 distinct habitats. It features mostly native plants, with an emphasis on nectar and host plants for local butterflies, and has excellent signs identifying plants and providing accurate information about butterflies in general. Metro: Federal Triangle or Smithsonian (Mall exit). You can now take an interactive tour of the butterfly garden. A map of the garden's layout numbers most of the plants; clicking these reveals more about the individual plant, its usefulness to butterflies, and sometimes facts about butterfly species that have been observed nectaring or egg-laying in the Habitat Garden.

58. Florida Butterfly Gardening- A New Book From The University Press Of Florida Florida butterfly gardening. A The first comprehensive guide to butterflygardening in Florida and adjacent states . . . useful http://www.upf.com/Fall1999/minno.html

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59. Florida Butterfly Gardening Do you enjoy nature around your home? butterfly gardening brings butterfliesto your doorstep. Luxurious butterfly gardening Workshops. Dr http://www.afn.org/~afn10853/butterfly.htm

Do you enjoy nature around your home? Butterfly gardening brings butterflies to your doorstep. Luxurious foliage and bright flowers attractive to butterflies fill your yard Native plants enhance the microcommunity in your landscape for butterflies, birds, and other wildlife. How To Garden For Butterflies Butterflies are attracted to nectar sources , or flowers that provide them with food. Nectar plants attract butterflies from the habitat that surrounds you. Caterpillars, which metamorphose into butterflies, require special kinds of plants to feed upon. These are called hostplants . The food plants produce butterflies, and serve as their habitat. Native plants, when put in a microsite suitable to their adaptations, will do extraordinarily well, require very little care, and will attract and produce numerous butterflies. You can even set up a butterfly garden in a container on your patio! Plant these plants, and the butterflies will come. Once your butterfly garden is set up, get to know their fascinating behavior and how they interact with other animals and the plants they depend upon. Here are some special ways to enjoy your butterfly garden Get the book that tells it all

60. Florida Butterfly Gardening butterfly gardening brings butterflies to your doorstep. If you have questionsabout butterfly gardening in Florida, ask Dr. Marc Minno. http://www.afn.org/~afn10853/butterflies.htm

Do you enjoy nature around your home? Butterfly gardening brings butterflies to your doorstep. Luxurious foliage and bright flowers attractive to butterflies fill your yard Native plants enhance the microcommunity in your landscape for butterflies, birds, and other wildlife. How To Garden For Butterflies Butterflies are attracted to nectar sources , or flowers that provide them with food. Nectar plants attract butterflies from the habitat that surrounds you. Caterpillars, which metamorphose into butterflies, require special kinds of plants to feed upon. These are called hostplants . The food plants produce butterflies, and serve as their habitat. Native plants, when put in a microsite suitable to their adaptations, will do extraordinarily well, require very little care, and will attract and produce numerous butterflies. You can even set up a butterfly garden in a container on your patio! Plant these plants, and the butterflies will come. Butterfly Nectar Sources Native Plants Asclepias tuberosa (Butterfly Weed) Asimina reticulata (Flatwoods Pawpaw). Zebra Swallowtail.

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