Butterfly caterpillar?

Provide native nectar and larval host plants to welcome these migratory butterflies

GARDENING GUIDES 6 Plants That Beat Butterfly Bush for the Wildlife Draw

It's invasive, a nonnative and a poor insect magnet. Check out these better alternatives to butterfly bush in the garden

GARDENING AND LANDSCAPING 9 Flowers That Draw Butterflies

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By FormLA Landscaping

Charm winged beauties and human visitors alike with these enticing, fragrant and colorful blooms for the garden

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES 7 Native Wildflowers to Make You an Awesome Butterfly Host

Offer the leaves of these and you’ll get more butterflies than with flower nectar alone

FLOWERS AND PLANTS Help Monarchs and Other Butterflies by Planting Common Milkweed

Summer-blooming Asclepias syriaca is an important larval host plant for the monarch butterfly and attracts a number of pollinating insects

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Asclepias Incarnata for a Butterfly Garden

Beautiful swamp milkweed makes it easy to help monarchs and other pollinators in eastern U.S. gardens

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES Be a Butterfly Savior — Garden for the Monarchs

Keep hope, beauty and kindness alive in the landscape by providing a refuge for these threatened enchanters

GARDENING GUIDES Mourning Cloak Butterflies Herald Spring

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These butterflies feed at tree-sap flows in spring and visit native plant flowers for nectar in early summer

GARDENING GUIDES 6 Steps to Creating Your Butterfly Garden

By Debbie Ballentine

Encourage these fanciful winged beauties to visit your garden while helping restore their fragmented habitat

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Butterfly Milkweed, a Beacon in the Prairie

Vivacious orange flowers for you, nectar for the butterflies and bees. Asclepias tuberosa is worth planting for more reasons than one