You Can Increase Butterfly Population

Queen Gulf Fritillary Cabbage White Zebra Longwing

Monarch Painted Lady Common Buckeye Red Admiral

Pipeline Swallowtail Tiger Swallowtail Orange-barred Sulphur Gray Hairstreak

Plant Host Plants for Caterpillars to Eat.We Planted a Cassia, host plant for Cloudless Sulphurs, in front of our

kitchen window.

Five (count ‘em 5!) Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillars

You Can Increase Butterfly Population

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How to increase Butterfly Population• Increasing butterfly population is a simple process of

reclaiming butterfly habitat areas taken over by civilization and devoting the area to butterflies by planting butterfly host and nectar plants.

• Areas are all-grass yards, gardens, vacant lots, road right-of ways and power line right-of-ways

• Two groups of plants need to be planted for the butterfly habitats to make a come back.

•Host plants for caterpillars to eat.•Nectar plants that flower for adult

butterflies to drink nectar from. • Host plants are usually limited to just a few plants for

each different butterfly. The Monarch’s host plant is milkweed.

• Nectar plants are most flowering plants.

You can select any butterflythat lives in your area to help

increase its population.To find out what butterflies live in your zip code,

go to Fred Miller and Patty Bigner’s website http://www.gardenswithwings.com/

We planted a Cassia tree, host plant forthe Sulphur Butterfly, outside the window where my computer is located. It acts like a magnet for female Sulphurs.

Leaders in Increasing Butterfly PopulationsThere is a group of well-organized professionals and their assistants who can help butterflies survive and thrive, school teachers and their students. Teachers who show their students how to grow the plants butterflies and caterpillars need for feeding and breeding is one answer to increasing butterfly populations. Another group is parents with young children. Especially the children that are home schooled. 

Classroom and Home ActivitiesIntroducing your young children to

butterflies can be done by purchasing a Painted Lady Butterfly kit. It can be set up

and watched inside your house or in a classroom. The Painted Lady can be

nurtured on a man-made mixture, so you do not need to have its host plant

available. 

The Monarch butterfly population is declining due to decreasing habitat in Mexico and the USA. You can help the

Monarch by planting milkweed in yards, gardens and open areas in the Monarch’s migration paths. There are vacant lands

where milkweed and wild flower seeds can be planted including roadsides, line right-

of-ways, your yard and open areas.

Monarch Migrating North in SpringDue to climate changes, in the spring milkweed is

not available for the female Monarch to lay her eggs. Starting milkweed plants inside, then replanting them outside for the migrating

butterflies to use will help sustain the Monarch butterfly population.

There are many species of milkweed as shownat http://plants.usda.gov/java/. Also shown is a

distribution map showing where a species of the milkweed grows. Our local butterfly nursery has at least two species of milkweed for our area.

They also have an enclosed “Butterfly Encounter” with butterflies flying around for your enjoyment.

Milkweed for Monarch Females to Lay EggsOne milkweed provides leaves for 6 monarch

caterpillars. The milkweed leaves are stripped by the caterpillars and as a landscape plant is not a

pretty sight.

Spread the WealthAlthough Gulf Fritillaries are local to our Zip Code,

we did not have any in our neighborhood. We planted Passion Vine seeds and cuttings and soon

had Gulf Fritillary Butterflies and caterpillars by the dozens populating our yard. We describe the

whole process in our website: www.ButerflyLifeCycle.net.

You can purchase butterfly eggs, caterpillars and chrysalises for your area from butterfly farms.

They can be located with a Google search.

Weddings ceremonies releasing Monarchscould also request their wedding party

members plant milkweeds. Send us your pictures to post:

ChuckMelvin@ButterflyLifeCycle.com

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Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly- Mathew Hoelscher - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiswango/4590229906/Queen Butterfly - Kenneth Cole Scheinder - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosyfinch/3062734726/Gulf Fritillary Butterfly - Lon & Queta - httpA://www.flickr.com/photos/lonqueta/5354880828/Cabbage White Butterfly - Mark Lucas - http://www.flickr.com/photos/29187221@N05/2785188633/Zebra Longwing Butterfly - Joe Girgenti - http://www.flickr.com/photos/jg5150/3743772706/Monarch Butterfly – Diana - http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturegrl64/3668808600/ Painted Lady Butterfly - Carl Lucas - http://www.flickr.com/photos/29187221@N05/3064103790/Common Buckeye Butterfly – johnandmary - http://www.flickr.com/photos/fricknfrack/5714667880/Red Admiral Butterfly - Brian Haslam - http://www.flickr.com/photos/brianhaslam/2766132510/lightbox/Pipeline Swallowtail Butterfly - Niel Hunt - http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhunt/4807921648/Tigger Swallowtail Butterfly - Lisa Holder - http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisaholdernc/7701591678/Gray Hairstreak Butterfly - John B - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dendroica/5027737662/

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