It is possible to make your own butterfly houses and feeders from objects around your home. Butterflies prefer specific foods and you can make these available in your garden. Butterflies like sunny warm spots, but if you are in a hot climate then shady areas are preferred. You can plan your garden to include specific butterfly attracting plants and flowers.
The best type of butterfly food is over ripe. Butterflies like very sweet food, think of how sweet nectar is. If you have any over ripe fruit in your fridge, don't throw it out but give it to the butterflies. Fruit trees are great butterfly feeding areas, as the fallen fruit is great food for them. They best type of fruit is rotten even moldy, over ripe fruit.
You can use a ceramic or glass pie plate, dish with a slopping rim, or terra cotta or plastic plant saucer as a butterfly feeder that holds fruit. The plate needs to be suspended and you can easily use a flowerpot hanger. The fruit feeder should be hung from a shady tree where you can view it easily. Add slices of overripe fruit and add a little fruit juice or water if the fruit becomes dry.
Butterflies also enjoy nectar and you can create your own nectar feeder. You need a glass jar with lid, absorbent cotton, twine and any decorations you wish to add. You will punch holes in the jar lid and stiff the holes with absorbent cotton. Fill the jar with nectar; you can make your won with sugar and water. Then you screw the lid back on tightly and hang the jar upside down. Use good absorbent material that stays moist but doesn't drip.
Butterfly houses are specifically designed to protect the butterflies form the weather and any wind as well as any predatory birds. These house look like birdhouses but have long slits in the front for the butterfly to get in and keep the birds out. Tree bark or twigs will be in the inside of the house so the butterflies have something to rest on. The butterflies will use this house for shelter, particularly as the weather cools down.
To get even more butterflies to your butterfly house you should have a butterfly feeder close by. You can put long twigs in the butterfly house to give the butterfly something to rest on. You should but the butterfly house in a shady part of your garden but in view so you can enjoy the butterflies. - 16732
The best type of butterfly food is over ripe. Butterflies like very sweet food, think of how sweet nectar is. If you have any over ripe fruit in your fridge, don't throw it out but give it to the butterflies. Fruit trees are great butterfly feeding areas, as the fallen fruit is great food for them. They best type of fruit is rotten even moldy, over ripe fruit.
You can use a ceramic or glass pie plate, dish with a slopping rim, or terra cotta or plastic plant saucer as a butterfly feeder that holds fruit. The plate needs to be suspended and you can easily use a flowerpot hanger. The fruit feeder should be hung from a shady tree where you can view it easily. Add slices of overripe fruit and add a little fruit juice or water if the fruit becomes dry.
Butterflies also enjoy nectar and you can create your own nectar feeder. You need a glass jar with lid, absorbent cotton, twine and any decorations you wish to add. You will punch holes in the jar lid and stiff the holes with absorbent cotton. Fill the jar with nectar; you can make your won with sugar and water. Then you screw the lid back on tightly and hang the jar upside down. Use good absorbent material that stays moist but doesn't drip.
Butterfly houses are specifically designed to protect the butterflies form the weather and any wind as well as any predatory birds. These house look like birdhouses but have long slits in the front for the butterfly to get in and keep the birds out. Tree bark or twigs will be in the inside of the house so the butterflies have something to rest on. The butterflies will use this house for shelter, particularly as the weather cools down.
To get even more butterflies to your butterfly house you should have a butterfly feeder close by. You can put long twigs in the butterfly house to give the butterfly something to rest on. You should but the butterfly house in a shady part of your garden but in view so you can enjoy the butterflies. - 16732
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