Butterfly gardening
Butterfly gardening is a growing school of gardening, that is aimed at creating an environment that attracts butterflies, as well as some moths. Butterfly gardening is often done to invite those butterflies and moths to lay eggs as well. In addition to the planting of flowers that feed butterflies, other methods of attracting them are building "butterfly houses", with sand for puddling, water to drink, and food items, like rotten fruit.
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Caligo beltrao with food items
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Graphium doson puddling
Butterfly Gardening Media
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A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) feeding on butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa). Monarch populations have been declining in abundance due to loss of habitat in the United States and deforestation at overwintering grounds in Mexico.
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A monarch waystation near the town of Berwyn Heights in Prince George's County, Maryland (June 2017)
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A coral hairstreak (Satyrium titus) resting on a clump of grass. The larvae will feed upon species in the family Rosaceae, including cherry (Prunus serotina)
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Group of Lysandra coridon puddling
A monarch waystation in Bowling Green, Ohio, near Toledo (May 2019)
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Hemaris diffinis hovering at Buddleja