Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your GardenThis new edition of Sierra Club's classic handbook series describes how to attract butterflies and other beneficial and beautiful insects to your garden. The book covers plants that attract butterflies, butterfly food plans, seed and plant sources, gardening and conservation organizations, and a bibliography of books and periodicals about butterflies. 130 color photos. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gardening with Butterflies | 7 |
What Do Butterflies See? | 17 |
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abdomen adults Asclepias Asclepias tuberosa Aster Asteraceae attract butterflies BACKGROUND PLANTING backyard birds BLOOM SEASON blue broods butterflies and moths butterfly garden cabbage white California canyon caterpillars checkerspot chrysalid colonist common CRANDALL DAVID CAVAGNARO ecosystem EDWARD fall EXPOSURE Family Asteraceae sunflower feeding feet FLOWER COLOR female Field Guide foliage fritillary full sun SOIL grasses habitat hairstreak hardy perennial HEIGHT hindwings host plant insects instar invertebrates JIM MESSINA lantana large white LARVAL FOOD PLANTS lavender leaf Lepidoptera Lepidopterists male Master Plant List milkweed Miriam Rothschild mixed perennial garden moth or butterfly native plant natural nectar plants North numbers OCCURRENCE orange parasitic wasps parasitoid patch pest phlox pollination PRAIRIE WINGS predators pupae pupate purple rare regions FLIGHT regions MPL Robert Michael Pyle ROSS seeds shrubs skipper sphinx moths spring sunflower or composite terfly trees umbels variety white butterfly wild wildflowers willows Xerces Society year-round yellow zebra