Butterfly gardening

Do you know what a butterfly is? It's a beautiful insect that loves to fly around and sit on flowers. Butterflies need plants to eat from and lay their baby eggs on. Butterfly gardening is when you make a special place in your yard just for butterflies to come and visit!

In your garden, you can plant special flowers that butterflies love, like milkweed or butterfly bush. These flowers are full of sweet nectar that the butterflies will drink from. When the butterfly drinks from the flower, it helps pollinate the plant. This means it helps the plant make new seeds so that more flowers can grow later on.

Butterflies also need a special place to lay their eggs in your garden. Some butterflies lay their eggs only on specific plants. For example, the monarch butterfly will only lay their eggs on milkweed plants. When the baby caterpillars hatch from the eggs, they will eat from the same plant.

To make your garden a perfect place for butterflies to come and visit, you should not use any pesticides or harmful chemicals. This will keep the butterflies safe and happy.

So, butterfly gardening helps bring beautiful butterflies to our yards! We can help them by planting the right flowers and keeping our gardens safe. Plus, we get to enjoy watching these lovely creatures flutter their wings around our garden.