Grow Butterflies inside your Garden
Posted by articlelink01 on May 2nd, 2014
Butterflies are beautiful creatures and they are also good as pets that you can take good care of inside your own garden. Children are interested and amazed about the life cycle of a butterfly. Their life starts as an egg and eventually grows as a beautiful creature. If you want to grow butterflies, then you can choose a reputable online pet store or grower to provide you with eggs and a complete kit where you can grow your butterflies. However, you can also choose to attract more adult butterflies inside your garden so they can lay eggs, but this is such a long process. The best option is for you to contact a reputable pet store online and grab your own kit. The best thing about it is the fact that you can choose what specie you can grow.
Each and every species of butterfly has its own requirement of host plant. These are plants that caterpillars need in order to grow. There are types of butterflies or caterpillars that only eat a certain kind of plant, but there are some that can eat several kinds of plants. If you will go to a trusted pet store, then they will tell you exactly what type of plant does your butterfly requires for the caterpillar to grow healthy. This is also important if you want to attract mature butterflies to your garden. If you want to grow butterflies, then it is better if you have some nectar plants inside your garden.
In case you want to grow monarch butterfly from egg until it becomes butterfly, then you need milkweed as it is the host plant of this type of butterfly. The best thing about this plant is that it is also a nectar plant. It is better if you will plant several milkweed plants inside your garden. You need to plant them in group rather than doing single planting that spreads around your garden. It is a good idea if you will plant them in group, so it can attract more butterflies if you want to grow the population of monarch butterfly inside your garden.
Monarch butterflies are considered as the most recognized specie in the North America. Also, this specie can be found in Australia and New Zealand. They are known as very beautiful butterflies because of their colorful wings. If you can find butterfly clip art of monarch butterflies, then you will be amazed of their beauty. Male monarch butterfly is a bit larger compared to female monarch. In male monarch, you will also find a spot called androconium that you can find in the middle part of their wings. Female monarch butterflies have darker veins on their wings. You can grow caterpillars indoor using a specialized cage that will be provided to you by the pet store. Caterpillars require plenty of food to eat. After 1 to 2 weeks, then your caterpillar will transform into a beautiful butterfly as you see on a butterfly clip art. You can choose to free it inside your garden to mate and to lay more eggs.
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