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Attracting Butterflies

Want to add some winged wonder to your backyard? Attract butterflies with these butterfly gardening ideas and our expert tips on the best plants and flowers that attract butterflies.

How to Attract Butterflies by Gardening

Attract more of these fluttering beauties to your backyard with a few simple steps.

7 Summer Nectar Flowers That Attract Butterflies

Looking for summer flowers that attract butterflies? Try these top seven choices.

Fruit Feeder to Attract Butterflies and Birds

Some butterflies prefer fruit to flowers, and certain birds enjoy a sweet treat too. Attract...

Roosting in the Butterfly Garden

When butterflies need to rest or take shelter, they find a place to roost. Learn...

Attracting Birds and Wildlife in Extreme Weather

From blizzards to heat waves we'll show you how to attract birds, bats and butterflies...

Watch a Butterfly Feeding

If you've never looked closely at a butterfly feeding, this video gives you the chance.

Attracting Butterflies: Common Buckeye

Despite the name, the Common Buckeye is anything but ordinary. The eyespots make this brown...

Big Eyes in the Butterfly Garden

Butterflies and caterpillars use “eyespots” to scare off predators in the butterfly garden and beyond!

Attracting Butterflies with Fruit

Flowers aren't the only way to bring butterflies to your garden. Learn about attracting butterflies...

Attracting Butterflies: ID Cheat Sheet

Love attracting butterflies to your backyard? Take notice of these flying flowers —they’re pretty incredible!

Attracting Butterflies: Long-Tailed Skipper

These little fliers are more colorful than you might first think. Learn how to attract...

Attracting Butterflies With a Free Milkweed Program

Community member Sandra Williams got her garden club involved in attracting butterflies with free milkweed....

Attracting Butterflies: 11 Must-Have Host Plants

Need help attracting butterflies to your yard? National Wildlife Federation expert David Mizejewski unveils butterfly...

Diary of Monarch Migration

The "super-generation" of butterflies that migrates to Mexico each year is simply amazing. Learn about...

Top 10 Butterfly Host Plants

Ready to take butterfly gardening to the next level? Plant butterfly host plants to give...

Watching Butterflies

Watching butterflies is a delight at any age, but finding them can be a challenge....

Year-Round Guide to Butterflies

Butterflies aren't just for summer. Here’s what to look for as the habits of these...

Butterflies in Winter

With snow already on the ground in some areas and the cold winds of winter...

Giant Swallowtail, a stunning butterfly

When I spotted this beauty this morning I said ‘wow’-it was such a stunning butterfly...

Create the Ultimate Backyard Wildlife Habitat

Love attracting birds? Don’t stop there. Garden for wildlife to create the ultimate backyard habitat...

Atala Hairstreak: A Butterfly Success Story

We’ve been having an exciting couple of weeks at the butterfly exhibit where I work....

Long-Blooming Flowers for Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds

Fill your garden with nectar-rich flowers that attract butterflies and hummingbirds from summer into fall.

Monarch Migration Magic

Monarchs undertake the longest known butterfly migration. Learn how they do it.

Fall Flowers That Attract Butterflies

When other blooms are past their prime, looks to these fall flowers that attract butterflies...

Butterfly Gardening Plans

For a fun twist, plant flowers that attract butterflies in a butterfly-shaped bed! We’ve got...

Butterfly Host Plants Facts

It takes more than nectar to increase the variety of species in your garden. Learn...

Attracting Butterflies With Fuzzy Flowers

Fuzzy flower heads contain hundreds of tiny nectar-filled florets, attracting butterflies from near and far.

Beautiful Perennials for a Colorful, Butterfly Garden

Do you know what is better then a garden bed filled with colorful perennials? One...

My Most Common Backyard Butterflies

It’s not an exaggeration to say that there are basically always butterflies in my Central...

Great Spangled Fritillary

When most people see a flash of orange from a passing butterfly, they automatically assume...

How to Make a Butterfly Garden Planter

How to Make a Butterfly Garden Planter

Viceroy Butterfly: A Monarch Mimic

Ah, the poor Viceroy (Limenitis archippus) butterfly. Everybody always thinks it’s a Monarch, when it’s...

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