Raise butterflies

Butterfly gardens are a beautiful and easy way to attract a variety of winged visitors to your backyard. They provide a peaceful and colorful environment, and help support local butterfly populations.

Catepillar - Host Plant - Adult - Nectar Plant Texas Butterflies chart

These pipevine swallowtail butterflies had completely vanished until a DIY breeder, Tim Wong, single-handedly brought the species is back using his backyard.

You don't have to sit around and wait for these friendly pollinators to come to you; you can actually raise butterflies at home. Follow these gardening tips to help you raise and bring butterflies into your garden this spring and summer. #gardening #gardenideas #garden #flowergarden #growingflowers #marthastewart

Here are the best butterfly cages you can buy or build to help safely raise monarch caterpillars in your own backyard.

Build a butterfly enclosure for raising Monarchs outdoors. It's a simple cupboard to hang on a wall that's MUCH nicer than the plastic options out there.

Alright, so this one is totally unrelated to "Home Chicken Keeping" but it was such a fun experience I had to write about it! If you're in the Eastern to Mid Western United States, where Black Swallowtail Butterflies are found, I urge you to try this, especially if you have kids. Every year we usually order the insectlure butterfly kit to raise painted lady caterpillars to butterflies, but this year we planted something in our garden to specifically help us attract Black Swallowtail…

Are you interested in raising monarchs at home? Butterflies are very important garden pollinators and the monarch butterfly population in particular has been rapidly declining for a number of years. Monarchs (and butterflies in general) really are the most remarkable creatures. The caterpillar has this incredible potential for transformation. They spend their days nourishing their