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Your Florida
Butterfly Garden
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Zone Florida If you want butterflies in your Florida garden, you need plants ...two kinds of plants 1. plants on which caterpillars prefer to feed known as larval plants 2. plants that feed butterflies known as nectar plants
Nectar plants are those you usually think off as attracting bees like this nice fat bumblebee...
Before you can enjoy butterflies...
to feed caterpillars you need larval plants ...caterpillar critters like this fellow...
Female butterflies are attracted to plants that can feed caterpillars. Butterflies fly to those preferred plants to lay their eggs which hatch ...then develop into caterpillars which later emerge as butterflies Caterpillars eat the leaves of such plants
So, in supplying larval plants you need to allow the caterpillars to go ahead and eat your plants' leaves ...if you see the caterpillars and kill them off, you have destroyed the potential butterfly crop One other important consideration is to offer a nice variety
of different
butterfly plants that bloom at
various times of year ...so whenever butterflies are around, you have nectar
on hand The vast majority of butterfly plants require a good amount of sun hours ...only partial shade is OK to raise flowering plants for butterflies So what plants do butterflies and caterpillars like in Florida? Shop for these plants...
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