Planting Butterfly Gardens
The milkweed plant is a necessary food
source for MONARCH BUTTERFLY CATERPILLRS who eat and munch the leaves to gain
2,700 times their weight in two weeks. Birds avoid eating Monarch butterflies
because their diet of Milkweed is poisonous.
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARE POLLINATORS
They pollinate the plants which feed all of the people of the world.
Many pollinating insects like the Monarch butterfly are Declining………
The flowers
in your Butterfly
Garden
and the Monarch butterfly. Nectar is a honey-like substance produced by flowers that butterflies feed on.
These
are the plants butterflies love.
1.
Zinnias
2. Marigolds
3. Phlox
4. Garden Petunias
5. Daisies
6. Sunflowers
7. Butterfly Bush (buddleia)
8. Blackeyed Susans
9. Lilies
10. Cosmos
11. Milkweed
Click on the butterfly to see what happens when you plant a handful
of sunflower seeds!!
Caterpillar
Photo,
Copyright
© S. Boone Productions
Photographer
Siamak Sehat