1. Butterflies taste with their feet.

2. The largest butterfly in the world is the Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing. It’s wings measure 11 inches from tip to tip.

3. The smallest butterfly has a wing span of only about 1/2 inch.

4. Most adult butterflies live long enough only to mate and lay eggs. some kinds live only a couple days.

5. The largest butterfly in the United States is the Giant Swallowtail with a wingspan of up to 6 inches.

6. A caterpillar can grow to be 27,000 times larger than the egg it hatched from. (If a 7-pound human grew that much, it would weigh 189,000 pounds as an adult!!!).

Majestic Monarch

Garden for Wildlife—ANYWHERE!!

Whether you live in the city, the suburbs or a rural area, you can your family can make a special place for wildlife. All you need to provide is food, water, cover and the wildlife to raise their babies. Your yard may already have some of these things!!

You and your family can turn any little patch of the outdoors into a very special place for butterflies.

You’ll need:

• A sunny patch of soil, or a sunny place to put flower pots,
  

  Enjoy your new garden

• Gardening tools to dig up the soil, such as a shovel, gardening fork, how or hand trowel,
• Flower pots and potting soil (if you don’t have or don’t want to dig up a patch of soil),
• Watering can or watering wand attached to a hose,
• Native flowering plants.

1. Find a nursery or garden sotre that sells native plants, and ask for those that are the best for attracting butterflies.

2. Dig up a sunny patch of soil big enough for your plants. (Follow any instructions that come with the plants.) Dig enough for the plants’ roots to have plenty of room to grow.

3. If you’re using flower pots, first put some small stones in the bottom of each pot for drainage. Then put in some potting soil, then the plant and then some more soil until the pot is filled to within an inch or so of the top.

4. Water your soil whenever it begins to get dry

5. Enjoy the butterflies in your new garden!!