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Attracting butterflies
A sunny area is needed, even 1/2 day will do.
Provide a source of mud or muddy water (Shallow).
Servral Flat Stones in the sun.
Grow plants that will provide food for all life stages.
Do not use pesticides in the garden
Provide a Butterfly House.
Remember the most important thing:
YOU CANNOT HAVE BUTTERFLIES UNLESS
THERE ARE CATERPILLARS!
Learn to identify the 'good guys.'
Provide the habitat & they will come!
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. Most adult butterflies may live 20-40 days. Some, however, are
believed to live no longer than three or four days, while others, such as overwintering monarchs, may live six months.
Adults searching for nectar are attracted to red, yellow, orange, pink,
or purple blossoms that are flat-topped or clustered and have short flower tubes which allow the butterflies to reach the nectar with their proboscis. Nectar producing plants should be grown in open, sunny areas, as adults rarely feed on plants in the shade.
Some caterpillars are picky eaters, and rely on only one or two
species of plants.
Butterfly bush, Buddleia alternifolia and B. davidii
Joe-Pye weed, Eupatorium maculatum
Tickseed sunflowers, Bidens species
Goldenrods, Solidago species
Asters, many native species
Butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa and other milkweeds
Blazing stars, Liatris species
Thistles, native Cirsium species
New Jersey tea and other Ceanothus species
Dogbanes, Apocynum species
Meadowsweet, Spirea latifolia
This is by no means a complete list of plant species for butterflies
Here is a Link for more butterfly Information :
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