What do butterflies eat?:

When rting with butterfly gardening, it is good to know a little bit more about these small and beautiful animals want to attract to r backyard. To know which flowers and plants to grow for feeding butteres, their ing habits are from particular interest for starting a butterfly garden.

As probably already know, butteres go through different life cycles. All butteres life cycle starts as an egg, then it turns into a erpar, afterwards it becomes a pupa and in the end it comes out as a butterfly.

Most of its ing during all these butterfly stages, this crure does when it is a erpar. For some types of butteres, this erpar stage is the only time in its whole life when it w ever . The erpar s and grows until it bursts and drops its skin for a new one. This process can be reped many, many times and in a couple of weeks the erpar can be a lot larger than it emerged.

But also butteres have the equipment to . They have a head, they have a thorax, and they have a venter as well. Just rather than the typical insect mouth, those butteres which do , have a tube. When not in use this tube rolled up like a coil spring but can be pushed deep into the glands of flowers to absorb their nectar.

The best way to find out which kind of nectar and food plants to offer r butteres is to take a hike around and explore r loion. Discover which species of butteres live in r area. For best results have a butterfly identifiion book handy and make some notes about what these specific species of butteres use for nectar and food plants. Although this might take some time and effort, w appreciate the result.
Once discovered the local butterfly species and prepared a list of flowers and plants they prefer, are ready to start designing r butterfly garden.