A while back I discovered that milkweed - one of the plants I usually try to eliminate from my garden - actually attracted monarch butterflies...
What other plants are butterfly-friendly? I wondered... So I went online to find out what I could...
The magazine On Nature had an article on plants necessary for butterfly larvae to grow... as well as host plants for adult butterflies...
It turns out that different butterfly species need different plants.
There also need to be flat landing surfaces for butterflies - not only on garden plants, but flat stones for basking in the sun. And shallow bowls of sand and water to drink from.
Hmmm. Attracting butterflies is a lot harder than I first imagined!
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