Attracting Butterflies: No Flowers Needed! 🦋🌿
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Butterfly gardening is extremely popular, but did you know there are many species of butterflies that rarely if ever visit flowers? These species can still be lured to your garden by providing them with their preferred food sources and as a bonus many flower visiting butterflies and pollinators will also use these sources.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to Butterflies that Rarely Visit Flowers
0:14 Butterfly Puddles or Mudding Spots - What They Are and Where to Place Them
1:01 A Great Example of a Natural Mudding Spot - River Otter Latrine
1:22 Using Over Ripe Fruit to Lure in Butterflies
2:07 The Attraction of Butterflies to Animal Bones and Skulls
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🦋🦋🦋🦋 Learn about an awesome butterfly that feeds on tree sap in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hoxnqbl9aZjTgZM.html 🦋🦋🦋🦋 Have you seen butterflies feeding from non-flower sources? Tell us about it in the comments!
Adam's Family!
The Adams Family due to their theme song and very cool house. Off to create a puddle for the butterflies who refuse flowers. GREAT INFO!
@BackyardEcology
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Thanks! The Addams Family currently ties with the Munsters!
Love this - informative and very entertaining! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and great sense of humor.
@BackyardEcology
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Thank you! Glad you found it useful and entertaining.
To add to the attraction have their host plants close to the food sources in case a ovipositing female is around.
@BackyardEcology
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Good point! Host plants are the foundation of a great butterfly (and moth!) habitat.
I created a puddle pond in a shallow concrete birdbath filled with gravel, but I've unfortunately never seen anything visit it. My hat, however, was very popular with a Hackberry Emperor and the gravel on our driveway havs had visitors. I think I'll try a hollowed out skull next. Even if they don't visit it, I'll certainly enjoy it!
@rockjockchick
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Your hat was probably popular because of minerals from sweat residue. :)
@BackyardEcology
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I'm surprised bees (of many species) haven't visited your gravel filled birdbath, they seem to really like them. Butterflies seem to like crushed limestone driveways - ours is covered with butterflies after it rains. Skulls always look cool in the garden!
Munsters!
I wet a spot in my gravel driveway when they’re around. By the way, I’ve got stinging nettle in my yard. Almost every plant has folded leaves. Inside are red admiral butterfly caterpillars!
@BackyardEcology
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The butterflies love our gravel driveway. Super cool on the red admiral caterpillars!
@davehendricks4824
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@@BackyardEcology nettle is their favorite food. They’re here every year and spend the winter in my bat house. (Since for some reason, probably fungus, there are no more bats around.
@BackyardEcology
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@@davehendricks4824 Bats can be fickle with bat houses. Sometimes they never use a particular house, sometimes they do and then stop. White nose has hit the bats hard around my area but still see a bunch. Cool that the butterflies are using the bat house as a hibernaculum!
so i was out back washing skulls the other day...
@BackyardEcology
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Perfectly normal, right...☠☠🤣🤣
I'm telling my raccoons and opossums that you are throwing shade...unless of course you post a video of your butterfly puddle methods.