If you’d like to attract more butterflies to your garden
(and consequently, help these lovely creatures avoid extinction) there are
several easy things you can try. First, ditch the pesticides, especially butterfly
killers like malathion, Sevin, and diazinon. Find out what flowers are native
to your area and incorporate them into your yard. Butterflies really only feed
in full sun; keep this in mind as you design your garden. Butterflies love red,
yellow, orange, pink and purple. They also prefer flat-topped blooms over long,
narrow ones. If you leave some nice, flat rocks or even lawn furniture in a
sunny spot, it will give them a pleasant place to rest. Butterflies love puddling
(that’s basically chilling in damp sand or mud), so put out a few shallow
dishes filled with sand and water. Some of their favorite flowers are phlox, coneflower,
black-eyed Susan, liatris, heliotrope, lavender, butterfly weed, butterfly
bush, cosmos, aster, allium, hollyhocks, sunflowers, sedum and goldenrod.
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