Bulletin #7151, Landscaping for #Butterflies in #Maine (PDF)

This fact sheet was developed by: Nancy Coverstone, Extension educator, Jim Dill, Extension pest management specialist, and Lois Berg Stack, Extension ornamental horticulture specialist.

Table of Contents:

- The Life Cycle of Butterflies
- Common Maine Butterflies
- How to Create Habitat that Entices Butterflies
- “Wild” Places Attract Butterflies
- #NativePlants Support Butterflies
- Design Tips for a Successful #ButterflyGarden
- Nectar Sources for Butterflies and Moths
- Larval Food Sources
- Further Readings

"Butterflies are beautiful insects, and they are also an important part of the ecosystem. In their search for nectar, they spread pollen from one flower to another and help ensure seed for new generations of plants. They also recycle nutrients and are prey for many species of birds, spiders and small mammals. Gardening and landscaping can create or enhance habitats for butterflies so they may survive and thrive. Whether your yard is in a city, suburb or rural community, you can make it a haven for butterflies.

Butterflies belong to the insect order Lepidoptera, along with moths and skippers. All species of butterflies in Maine, of which there are more than one hundred, have four wings covered with small scales. The butterfly families in Maine are #swallowtails (Papilionidae), whites and sulphurs (Pieridae), gossamer-wings (Lycaenidae), brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae), #monarchs (Danaidae), and arctics and satyrs (Satyridae), which includes the endangered #KatahdinArctic. Skippers (#Hesperiidae) have characteristics of both butterflies and moths.

When developing a landscape for butterflies, first consider butterfly species present in your area and their preferred habitats. Then consider plants suited to your climate and your backyard habitat. Assess what your landscape already provides, and add to that. Each butterfly species has a preference or need for a particular habitat type, such as meadow, woods, woodland edges or marshes. Also, some species are specialists, while others are generalists regarding food sources. The habitat preference as well as plants you provide will determine your success in attracting a particular butterfly species. An identification field guide will prove helpful."

Learn more:
https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/7151e/

#SolarPunkSunday #ButterflyHabitat #BackyardHabitats #GardeningForPollinators #UMaineExtension #UMaineCooperativeExtension

Follow the recommendations in this article to create a pollinator garden friendly to bees, butterflies, and many other insects vital to the survival of plants.”

🔗 http://www.post-gazette.com/life/garden/2017/01/27/Help-for-the-honeybees/stories/201701290039

Hashtags:
#PollinatorGarden #SaveTheBees #ButterflyHabitat #EcoGardening #NativePlants #Biodiversity #SustainableLiving #BeeFriendly #NatureConservation #GardeningForWildlife

Common Buckeye #butterflies on Gregg’s Mistflower in the front garden. Since it appears that the seasons-change in SE Texas has been cancelled, with daily temps more summer-like than anything approximating autumn, I went ahead and bought some end-of-season-on-sale native perennial butterfly attractor plants and got them in the ground. Success so far, these are the first buckeyes I’ve seen in our garden.

#SilentSunday #butterfly #butterflyphotography #butterflyhabitat #photography

Monarch butterfly habitat creation and California wildflower field.
1st step: Just finishing the irrigation.
Next step: Wait until weeds sprout.
Since it has been a dry fall, sprinklers will have to do the job to get the plot ready before the rainy season.
Step III. after 2 to 3 week lightly till sprouted weeds into the top 1 to 2 inches of soil.
Phase IV: plant plugs of native milkweed in clumps of 3 to 5 plants. and broadcast wildflower seed mix.
I will post updates .
#PollinatorGarden
#Butterflyhabitat
#wildflower
Below is the picture of the bare quarter acre field in Escondido, California, showing the trenches where the irrigation pipe was laid. Hope to get the ground prepared before the winter rains.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FwiH8RweTvRTdSYY6

#sicilia #sicily #italy #happyisland #isolafelice
#ButterflyGarden #ButterflyHabitat #CasaDelleFarfalle
#giardinotropicale #habitatideale #farfalle #CasaDelleFarfalleRagusa
#DiscoverRagusa #MustVisitPlace #WonderOfNature #Biodiversity #RagusaAttraction
#ButterflyFarms #ecosostenibilità #allevamentoecologico #biodiversità #conservazione
#progettoecologico

Si inaugura a San Valentino ''La Casa delle Farfalle'' di Ragusa | Guida Sicilia https://www.guidasicilia.it/notizia/si-inaugura-a-san-valentino-la-casa-delle-farfalle-di-ragusa/3021061

A Florida Malachite butterfly feeding on a blood orange.
One of 83 species of butterfly which are native to Broward County, FL.

#Florida
#ButterflyHabitat
#butterfly
#pollinator
#lepidoptera

It's been too long since I did a photo of the day so I'm going to drop 4 at once. These are all plants inside our Butterfly Pavilion which is opening on March 4th.
We hope to have nearly 1000 native Florida butterflies on display that day.

#FlamingoGardens
#southFlorida
#BotanicalGarden
#butterflyhabitat
#monarch
#butterflies to

here's a lil video i made of some #monarchbutterflies i raised.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRqJwKKP/

#monarchbutterly #butterflyhabitat #butterfly

In no particular order:

#reading
#writing
#coding
#archaeology
#anthropology
#geology
#astronomy
#camping
#python
#butterflyhabitat
#nativeplants
#prairierestoration
#linocut
#drawing
#geometric
#celticknots