Best Butterfly Gardening Websites
Before
You Plant, Know Your Zone
Conult these maps and locate your planting zone:
Monarch
Watch: Butterfly Gardening
An Introduction Creating a Butterfly Garden: A Teacher's Guide
to planting a school butterfly garden, plus plant lists
| Pamphlets and books on butterfly gardening can be found at this site. Information on what a butterfly is, life history, behaviors to watch, creating a butterfly garden including a garden design, references and resources |
Information about the following:
- Nectar Plants
- Nectar and Larval Plants
- Larval Plants
- Trees
- Other Desirables
- Proper Use of Planting Guide
Audubon
Guide to a Healthy Yard and Beyond
Everyone can create healthy habitats by making kinder choices. To
find out how to use more native plants, less lawn, and less pesticides,
download Audubon's Guide, which features "10 Commandments for a Healthy
Yard."
Visit
a Delaware School Butterfly Garden
This site is brought to you by Lynne Bloom, a second grade teacher at
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in the Christina School District at
Newark, Delaware.
Landscaping with Native Plants Learn how to get started planting native plants. Once established, native plants do not need fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides or watering.
North American Native Plant Society Get information for your region. Whatever your level of experience -- from novice to expert -- the North American Native Plant Society invites you to explore the world of native plants.
Butterfly
Garden--University of Kentucky Department of Entomology
How To Make Butterfly Gardens: Includes nectar preferences and
larval food plants for several species of butterflies including the monarch
with many pictures.
The Butterfly Zone Web Site
The Urban Gardener: Discusses how to attract butterflies to your
garden, even if you live in the most urban setting in America. We talk
you through the basics of how to bring these exquisite creatures of nature
into your life and how to plan a small, butterfly friendly garden or window
box.
The Butterfly Guide: Offers information about the sorts of butterflies
you will find in your neighborhood and which plants will attract them
to your home. The guide divides the United States into six regions and
describes which flowering plants will attract specific butterflies in
each region.
- Southeast
- Desert Southwest
- Pacific Coast
- Midwest
- High Plains
- New England
North
American Butterfly Association
NABA's program for Butterfly Gardens & Habitats is a series of brochures
that describe basic butterfly gardening as well as butterfly gardening
in specific regions in the U.S. Included is such information as top butterfly
nectar flowers, nectar flowers that don't work in this region, top caterpillar
food plants, common butterflies for your garden & yard, local &
unusual butterflies for your garden & yard, and general comments about
gardening in this region. Regional butterfly gardening brochures (price
$3.00 each; PDF files are available also) about 16 states were listed
Young Entomologists
Society
A nonprofit, entomology youth education organization with goal to provide
young people with a combination of programs, publications, and educational
materials that enrich their insect and spider studies through dynamic,
innovative, and enjoyable learning experiences.
Butterflies
of the United States and Northern Mexico
Teachers/students can click on any state in the U.S. (and N.Mexico with
Canada planned) to see which butterflies visit each state, their distribution
within the state, see pictures of the butterflies, and some contain textual
descriptions and other information, such as life history, required habitat,
and conservation concerns.
Please
let us know!
If you're aware of a similar web resources for Canada.
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