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Attracting Butterflies to Your Yard

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Butterflies can be a beautiful, fascinating, colorful addition to your backyard habitat! Sadly, many butterflies have lost their favorite feeding spots and breeding grounds to human development. Areas that have not been built up may instead be poisoned with deadly pesticides. By inviting butterflies into your yard, you can help them feed, breed, and flourish. It can be very easy to attract butterflies to your yard. Here’s what you’ll need: Food for caterpillars — after all, that’s where butterflies come from! Caterpillars have chewing mouths and like to eat leaves and stems. Food for butterflies. Butterflies have sucking mouths and … Continue reading →

Fun In The Butterfly House

During our last trip to Hawaii we took my then 2-year-old daughter to the butterfly exhibit at the local zoo. She’s not too fond of bugs, so I wasn’t sure how much she would appreciate standing in a cage full of monarchs, longwings and swallowtails. My older brother (ever the realist) insisted she would be just fine. After all, he reminded me, my daughter once tried to climb into the zoo’s monkey cage, so this was her chance to get up close and personal with some winged insects. Turns out he was right. Within minutes of walking into the exhibit … Continue reading →

Spring Butterfly Crafts

Here are two springtime butterfly crafts for your preschool or young elementary-school age kids that will welcome in spring and also add a little decoration to your home. Butterflies are a sure sign of sunny weather, so set your kids to work and bring a little sunshine in! Clip-on Spring Butterflies Clip these butterflies on window shades, potted plants, or wherever you want a little color. You will need: Coffee filters Old newspaper or other absorbent scrap paper Watercolor paints Paintbrush Container with water Twist ties or pipe cleaners Glue 1. Spread the coffee filter out on the newspaper or … Continue reading →