Attracting Butterflies
 

Hi, Everybody,

What types of flowers do butterflies like? If it
matters, the ones near here are Monarch(?) type and
some kind with mostly black wings with red parts and
white dots.

The areas to be planted a 1x2 metre bed, and around the
edges of a grass area. Containers possible as well.

Thanks in advance.


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Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote:

Hi, Everybody,

What types of flowers do butterflies like? If it
matters, the ones near here are Monarch(?) type and
some kind with mostly black wings with red parts and
white dots.

The areas to be planted a 1x2 metre bed, and around the
edges of a grass area. Containers possible as well.

Thanks in advance.

There is a TON of info on this on the web. :-)
I know, I've looked there myself.
Personally, I mix Lantana and starflower, as well as butterfly bush. I
do ok, but the wall of honeysuckles on one side of the yard do the best
job! I'm trying to get more hummingbirds in so have planted trumpet
vine, but it's taking forEVER to get going! :-P

Try he

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entom...misc/ef006.htm

And that's just a start!
Go to google.com and type "butterfly garden" into the search.

Have fun! :-)

Kat

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What types of flowers do butterflies like?

I've always had the best luck with Mexican sunflowers. And they grow fast and
easy anywhere. Zinnias are good too.

Joelle
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unloving ways" ~ Words of a teacher quoted by Russell Barkley~

What types of flowers do butterflies like?

I've always had the best luck with Mexican sunflowers. And they grow fast and
easy anywhere. Zinnias are good too.

Joelle
"The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most
unloving ways" ~ Words of a teacher quoted by Russell Barkley~

Katra wrote:
In article ,
Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote:


Hi, Everybody,

What types of flowers do butterflies like? If it
matters, the ones near here are Monarch(?) type and
some kind with mostly black wings with red parts and
white dots.

The areas to be planted a 1x2 metre bed, and around the
edges of a grass area. Containers possible as well.

Thanks in advance.


There is a TON of info on this on the web. :-)
I know, I've looked there myself.
Personally, I mix Lantana and starflower, as well as butterfly bush. I
do ok, but the wall of honeysuckles on one side of the yard do the best
job! I'm trying to get more hummingbirds in so have planted trumpet
vine, but it's taking forEVER to get going! :-P

Try he

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entom...misc/ef006.htm

And that's just a start!
Go to google.com and type "butterfly garden" into the search.

Have fun! :-)

Kat

We have good luck with the butterfly bushes. No honeysuckles around
though. As for the hummingbirds, have you tried one of those red
feeders for them? You have to remember to take them down in the fall
though or the little buggers kind of "forget" to migrate and hang around.

We have some and they return every year. Cool little devils to watch.
They've actually gotten "semi" used to us and if we make no sudden moves
they get rather brave sometimes.

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For 'Monarch' butterflies you need 'swan plants'.


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Steve Calvin wrote:

Katra wrote:
In article ,
Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote:


Hi, Everybody,

What types of flowers do butterflies like? If it
matters, the ones near here are Monarch(?) type and
some kind with mostly black wings with red parts and
white dots.

The areas to be planted a 1x2 metre bed, and around the
edges of a grass area. Containers possible as well.

Thanks in advance.


There is a TON of info on this on the web. :-)
I know, I've looked there myself.
Personally, I mix Lantana and starflower, as well as butterfly bush. I
do ok, but the wall of honeysuckles on one side of the yard do the best
job! I'm trying to get more hummingbirds in so have planted trumpet
vine, but it's taking forEVER to get going! :-P

Try he

http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entom...misc/ef006.htm

And that's just a start!
Go to google.com and type "butterfly garden" into the search.

Have fun! :-)

Kat

We have good luck with the butterfly bushes. No honeysuckles around
though. As for the hummingbirds, have you tried one of those red
feeders for them? You have to remember to take them down in the fall
though or the little buggers kind of "forget" to migrate and hang around.

We have some and they return every year. Cool little devils to watch.
They've actually gotten "semi" used to us and if we make no sudden moves
they get rather brave sometimes.

I've tried a few feeders, but have just never had good luck attracting
many. sigh We had a LOT of them when we lived in California!

I miss the little buzzers.....
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Katra wrote:


I've tried a few feeders, but have just never had good luck attracting
many. sigh We had a LOT of them when we lived in California!

I miss the little buzzers.....

Didja try the red one? For some reason, they're attracted to red. We
get 'em in NY, my Mother used to get them in NW PA, and Nancy's Mom gets
them on Cape Cod with them. All red ones.

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Steve

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence.

In article ,
Steve Calvin wrote:

Katra wrote:


I've tried a few feeders, but have just never had good luck attracting
many. sigh We had a LOT of them when we lived in California!

I miss the little buzzers.....

Didja try the red one? For some reason, they're attracted to red. We
get 'em in NY, my Mother used to get them in NW PA, and Nancy's Mom gets
them on Cape Cod with them. All red ones.

Oh yes!

Most hummingbird feeders have red reservoirs and/or bases.

I think there is just too much for them to eat in nature around here...
:-)
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see, I have friends in both places." --Mark Twain

They go nuts for pineapple sage.

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Hi, Everybody,

What types of flowers do butterflies like? If it
matters, the ones near here are Monarch(?) type and
some kind with mostly black wings with red parts and
white dots.

The areas to be planted a 1x2 metre bed, and around the
edges of a grass area. Containers possible as well.

Thanks in advance.

Howdy:

I suggest you review the ag publication at the University of Florida EDIS
site at:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/UW057 The publication is quite comprehensive and I
think you will find it informative.

If you click at the upper right hand corner you can download the formal pdf
version.

GG
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