121. Gardening : Butterflies : Butterflies! : Home & Garden Television Attracting these lovely creatures means giving them the plants they need for all stages of their lives. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/gl_wildlife_butterflies/article/0,1785,HGTV_3653_204597

Program Guide Shows A - Z Decorating Remodeling ... Store SEARCH GARDENING Books / Videos Bulbs / Seeds Cacti / Succulents ... Other Butterflies! Want to attract butterflies to your yard? It's easythey've got an appetite for a broad selection of flowering plants and shrubs and tend to find large masses of color first. A grouping of flowersor large bloomsseem to catch their attention first. by Marie Hofer, Gardening editor, HGTV.com It's a lovely sight in the gardenbright color on the wing. Darting from flower to flower, butterflies add a special dimension, bringing movement, spontaneity and delight to the simplest of gardens. It's easy to plant things that will attract them. The list is long and includes a range of annuals, perennials, wildflowers and shrubsbutterfly bush, bee balm, daisy, coneflower, coreopsis, mint, phlox, verbena, lantana, milkweed, lilac, privet, yarrow, butterfly weed, chrysanthemum, purple ageratum. Browse these pages to get plenty of planting ideas: Butterflies seem to spot yellow, orange, red and purple flowers first. Here, a western tiger swallowtail feeds on lantana.

122. Illinois Audubon Society: Butterfly Garden Tour The Illinois Audubon Society is an organization that promotes the perpetuation and appreciation of native flora and fauna of Illinois and the habitats that http://www.illinoisaudubon.org/butterfly.html

PRESENTING THE Illinois Audubon Society's Self-guided Butterfly Garden Tour of The Chicago Metro Area 2004 Enjoy more than 60 unique and beautiful butterfly gardens in the Chicago area. Price includes The Butterfly Garden Tour Guide Book with locations, directions and maps. Both public and private gardens will be open for visitation. Butterfly Garden Tour Dates Questions? Please caontact Alicia Cuccia, 708-479-1827 E-mail: IASBGT@aol.com Why Go on a Butterfly Garden Tour? As you know, housing developments and industrial complexes are gobbling up what were once the beautiful fields and roadsides of Illinois, which were full of native and non-native flowers which were butterfly and insect havens. We need to do something positive to counteract this loss of habitat. Otherwise, we may lose most of our butterflies and other beneficial insects. Some experts already feel that the future of the monarch butterfly may only be assured by having gardens with butterfly-friendly plants all along its migration routes to Mexico. This fundraiser publicizes the plight of our insect populations, and gives you information on how you can help by choosing the right plants for your own yard. If you don't have a garden, but would like to learn about butterfly gardening, plan now to take part in this great weekend opportunity to:

123. Butterfly Gardens | Plants For Hummingbirds | Attracting Birds Trees, shrubs and other plants to create butterfly gardens and for attracting birds, including hummingbirds. butterfly gardens are composed of plants also http://landscaping.about.com/od/forthebirds/

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Landscaping Landscape Design Ideas Bird, Butterfly Gardens Landscaping Essentials Consumer Product Reviews Landscape Design Solutions ... Help zau(256,140,140,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/C.htm','');w(xb+xb+' ');zau(256,140,140,'von','http://z.about.com/0/ip/496/7.htm','');w(xb+xb); FREE Newsletter Sign Up Now for the Landscaping newsletter! See Online Courses Search Landscaping Butterfly Gardens and Attracting Birds - Landscape Design Watching butterflies, hummingbirds and other wild birds is a fun part of landscaping. Create butterfly gardens and plant plants good at attracting butterflies. Create a landscape design with an eye to attracting birds. Grow and craft gourds to make novel gourd birdhouses. Attracting butterflies to butterfly gardens means plants attractive to you, too! Alphabetical Recent Butterfly Bush for Hummingbirds, Butterfly Gardens Butterfly bush has a prime place in butterfly gardens, and is particularly adept at attracting tiger swallowtails. But butterfly bushes also attract hummingbirds, making them must-haves for hummingbird gardens, too. And don't forget the bees: butterfly bush will also attract the bees that will pollinate other plants in your garden. Attracting Birds With Dogwood and Other Flowering Trees, Shrubs

124. Attracting Butterflies To Your Yard - Backyard Wildlife Habitat Necessities for a butterfly garden. Provide flowers to feed adults. Don t use these materials in or near the butterfly garden or better, http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/attractbutterflies.cfm

About NWF Contact Us Search IN-DEPTH RESOURCES: OUR PROGRAMS WHERE WE WORK NEWSROOM Home ... Outdoor Classroom Tips and Projects Attracting Butterflies Butterfly facts Brightly colored butterflies can be a welcome addition to your Backyard Wildlife Habitat landscape. To attract the greatest number of butterflies and have them as residents in your yard you will need to have plants that serve the needs of all life stages of the butterfly. They need a place to lay eggs, food plants for the larva (caterpillar), a place to form a chrysalis, and nectar sources for the adult. Most adult butterflies live 10-20 days. Some, however, are believed to live no longer than three or four days, while others, such as overwintering monarchs, may live six months. More than 700 species of butterflies are found in North America. Very few are agricultural pests. Adult butterflies range in size from the half-inch pigmy blue found in southern California to the giant female Queen Alexandra's birdwing of New Guinea, which measures about 10 inches from wing tip to wing tip. Butterfly tarsi or "feet" possess a sense similar to taste. Contact with sweet liquids such as nectar causes the proboscis to uncoil. Millions of shinglelike, overlapping scales give butterfly wings their color and patterns. Metallic, irridescent hues come from faceted scales that refract light; solid colors are from pigmented scales. During the time from hatching to pupating (forming the pupa or chrysalis), the caterpillar may increase its body size more than 30,000 times. The chrysalises or pupae of many common gossamer wings - a group of butterflies which includes the blues, hairstreaks and elfins - are capable of producing weak sounds. By flexing and rubbing together body segment membranes, sounds are generated that may frighten off small predators and parasites.

125. Butterfly Gardens -- Luring Nature's Loveliest Pollinators To Your Yard butterfly Gardens Luring Nature s Loveliest Pollinators to Your Yard. http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/wildlife/handbooks/butterflies/3.html

@import "/common/bbg.css"; @import "/common/filter.css"; Skip navigation Brooklyn Botantic Garden Search for: Visiting Gardening Education Research ... Shop Gardening Gardening Techniques Garden Design Great Plants Gardening for Wildlife ... Table of Contents 3. Designing Gardens for Butterflies by Alice Yarborough Gardening for butterflies is a suspenseful art, a bit like holding a picnic and wondering if your invited guests will show up. Butterflies are choosy insects. Any gardener can have aphids, but Red Admirals, Painted Ladies and Tiger Swallowtails insist that certain conditions be met. Ample sunshine is the foremost consideration. Butterflies avoid shady areas. Ideally, your garden should have a southern exposure. Butterflies use early morning sunlight for basking on sun-warmed rocks, bricks or gravel paths. As morning temperatures rise, they begin visiting their favorite nectar flowers, but always in sunlit areas of the garden. They prefer gardens that are sheltered from prevailing winds. If yours is not, consider planting a windscreen of lilac, mock orange, butterfly bush or viburnum all shrubs whose flowers are rich in nectar. A butterfly garden's style is not as important as its content. It should offer nectar flowers throughout the growing season. Luckily, many of our most loved annuals and perennials are top-notch nectar sources. While native American species play an important role as host plants for hungry butterfly caterpillars, most adult butterflies have cosmopolitan tastes, supping as readily on the nectar-filled flowers of

126. International Butterfly Breeders Association - For Butterfly Breeders, Butterfly Organization for butterfly breeders or butterfly farmers who raise live who raise live butterflies for butterfly education, butterfly gardens and http://www.butterflybreeders.com/

Welcome to the website of the International Butterfly Breeders Association. Our goal is to provide a strong ethical code for butterfly farmers who raise live butterflies for butterfly education, butterfly gardens and butterfly houses, live butterfly wedding releases, and live butterfly releases for other special events. We promote butterfly conservation and butterfly research by educating our members and other butterfly lovers. If you are viewing this text, your browser lacks the ability to read frames. Don't worry, you can still enjoy our site. Please use the links below. IBBA Home Page Butterflies: Where To Buy Butterfly Releases - Client Reports Planning the Perfect Butterfly Wedding Butterfly releases - why it's OK What the experts say IBBA Position on Butterfly Releases Publisher retracts statement Letters to the Opposition ... Joining the IBBA About the IBBA In Memorium - Judy Siebert A message from the President Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) IBBA Develops the Industry ... Imperial-Metric Conversion Permit Information,Center Map of the US Continental Divide State Agency Contact List Members' Section Enter the Members Section IBBA Board Elections, 2003

127. Butterfly Herb Garden butterfly Herb Garden A garden for butterflies is also a garden for people Rewarded by their colorful, gentle animation we are also surrounded by heavenly, http://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/butterflyherbgarden.htm

DWARF BLUE BUTTERFLY BUSH, PURPLE CONE FLOWER, HYSSOP, HOPLEY'S PURPLE OREGANO, CURLY SPEARMINT, CERISE QUEEN YARROW A garden for butterflies is also a garden for people.Rewarded by their colorful, gentle animation we are also surrounded by heavenly, fragrant flowers we might not ordinarily grow. Diversity is the watchword for butterfly gardening. Published lists of plants butterflies are attracted to are a good place to start, but they will always fall short of the plants butterflies actually enjoy. Planting a lot of different kinds of plants, will attract the maximum of different kinds of visitors. The Great Spangled Fritillary and the Loquin's Admiral might prefer different nectar bars. Plants of different heights, colors, and different bloom times provide habitats need for resting, hibernating and feeding. For instance, butterflies tend to like it warm and planting a diverse habitat will give them places to, not only, spend the night and find moisture, but also to bask. In Rick Mikula's excellent book Garden Butterflies of North America , he writes of the need Butterflies have for basking in the sun. Since their internal muscles must warm to 80 degrees for flight, providing light colored basking areas lets them rev up their engines faster. He suggest a butterfly waterless pond. He makes his in the shape of a butterfly, but any shape will do. You make an indentation in the soil, line it with plastic, add a few similar in size light colored stones or sand and stand back. He adds that if morning dew collects the butterflies will find this moisture when they come to bask. Of course, the sidewalk will work too, but it is not as much fun.

128. Forest Preserve District Of Cook County A butterfly garden should provide a good source of nectar for adult butterflies, If you would like to design a butterfly garden of your own, http://www.fpdcc.com/tier3.php?content_id=39

129. California Native Plants Used By California Butterflies With Pictures Plants for a California or Western butterfly Garden Remember, you will not see very many butterflies in your garden if their larval food plants are not http://www.laspilitas.com/butterfl.htm

Native Plant Nurseries California Plants Garden Design Help ... EXtreme Gardens Search WWW Search Las Pilitas Wildlife Plant Communities How to do- garden ideas Class Notes Plants for a California or Western Butterfly Garden This page shows which California butterflies use which California native plants . To get more details on a plant or for ordering information just click on the plant links. Plant sites give growing requirements pictures and prices.( If there is no link on the plant it is because we do not carry it.) To get more detailed information on butterflies and for scientific names, click on the butterfly links. If there is no link on a butterfly it is because they have not bee written yet. Sorry. To reference plants by the butterflies that use them go to the Main Butterfly page and click on the butterfly you wish to look up. Each page has larval and adult food plant information and butterfly pictures. NOTE: This page may not load completely because of the complexity of this table. If you are missing stuff try reloading it.

130. Congaree Butterfly Garden All the plants in the Congaree butterfly garden are native to this area. These plants attract butterflies to the garden without artificial feeders. http://www.nps.gov/cosw/coswbg.htm

Congaree National Park Native Plant Butterfly Garden What is a butterfly garden? Butterfly gardens provide habitat and food for butterflies and caterpillars. Female butterflies lay eggs on host plants, which furnish hearty meals and homes for caterpillars. By supplying food, water, shelter and space, the garden provides a complete habitat. Hummingbirds, moths, and skippers (members of the moth family) also feast on these plants. Rabbits and deer feed at night on these plants. About the plants... All the plants in the Congaree butterfly garden are native to this area. These plants attract butterflies to the garden without artificial feeders. Caterpillars eat sassafras and wax myrtle leaves while butterflies sip from flowering plants like spiderwort and cardinal flower. This can be done at home... You can plant a butterfly garden in your backyard to provide a habitat for the butterflies in your area. By giving wildlife a habitat rather than a handout, you help animals to help themselves. Your local library will have information on butterfly gardening in your neighborhood. Native plants that will attract butterflies.

131. Audubon: Backyard To get the most out of your butterfly garden, provide host plants for Situate your butterfly garden in a sheltered area that receives at least six hours http://magazine.audubon.org/backyard/backyard.html

Butterflies have long fascinated me. When I was a child in southern California, three lantana bushes that flowered in various shades of yellow, orange, and red bordered the 10-foot walk to our front door-an eye-catching rainbow hedge that was visited by dozens of fawn-colored skipper butterflies. The skippers held my attention for hours as they uncoiled their tongues and dipped them into the center of each minute flower. Occasionally one would crawl onto my finger, and I would look into its deep black eyes. More than 750 species of butterflies live in the United States and Canada, and each one is like a work of art-a living tapestry of stripes and circles. The butterfly's life cycle varies from species to species and with the time of year, but all butterflies metamorphose from eggs to caterpillars, then harden into a chrysalis for the pupal phase, and emerge as the beautiful winged adult we admire. In summer the entire process takes from 5 to 10 weeks for all butterflies, but winter is a different story. Some butterflies hibernate-a period known as diapause. Sulphurs, whites, hairstreaks, and swallowtails hibernate as chrysalises; viceroys and fritillaries, as caterpillars; and red admirals, mourning cloaks, and monarchs-America's best-known butterfly-as adults. Monarchs, of course, are migratory, spending their winters in Mexico and on the coast of southern California. A few others, painted ladies among them, migrate shorter distances. Once the springtime temperature reaches 60 degrees, butterflies re-appear and look for spring flowers such as lilac, phlox, rhododendron, and dame's rocket. Butterflies' feet have taste receptors that sense sweet liquids. When those receptors find a nectar-laden treasure, they uncoil their tubelike tongues, called proboscises, and dine.

132. NCSU: ENT/ort-8 PLANTING A BUTTERFLY GARDEN To prepare a butterfly garden you will need a location with plenty of sun and However, with a little planning, a butterfly garden can have charm, http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/4H/butterfly8.html

North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service North Carolina State University 4-H Entomology Insect Note 08 (ENT/ort-08) PLANTING A BUTTERFLY GARDEN This note prepared by S. Bambara and J. Baker, Extension Entomologists. Butterflies are colorful and interesting insects that have long been the favorites of collectors. Today, there are fanciers who, rather than pin dead specimens, prefer to watch them flitter about in a natural setting. If you are among this group, there are several things you can do to attract a butterflies to your yard or garden. Butterflies have an excellent sense of smell. Use older varieties with more scent rather than hybrid varieties which may be milder in odor. Adult butterflies may live from two weeks to several months. Where do they go? Usually, butterflies lay eggs and become caterpillars that feed on a plant different from the one on which the adult feeds. These host plants can be weeds, or nearby trees, so you don't necessarily need to supply host plants. Only a few butterflies have a caterpillar which is actually a pest. One is the imported cabbageworm, which feeds on cabbage and broccoli-type plants. These can be controlled with nonchemical bacterial pesticide. Another is the black swallowtail caterpillar (parsleyworm) which feeds on parsley, dill, and carrots. However, they seldom eat enough to do significant damage. A water supply is not essential, but can serve as a resting spot for some to drink and obtain minerals. If you can't create a nice mud puddle, sink a container full of sand into the ground and keep it moist.

133. Butterfly Garden Seed Pack This great assortment of easy to grow butterfly garden seeds Cornflowers, Asters, Alyssum, Blackeyed Susan, Zinnia, Cosmos, and many more, is packed in a http://mailjust4me.com/crafts/butterflygarden.htm

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