The benefits of butterfly gardening
Butterfly gardening is a way to create, improve, and maintain habitat for lepidopterans including butterflies, skippers and moths. Butterflies have four distinct life stages—egg, larva, chrysalis, and adult. In order to support and sustain butterfly populations, an ideal butterfly garden contains habitat for each life stag
Butterfly gardening provides a recreational activity to view butterflies interacting with the environment. Besides anthropocentric values of butterfly gardening, creating habitat reduces the impacts of habitat fragmentation and degradation.
some benefits of butterfly gardening
They pollinate plants in your garden
butterflies are great for your garden as they are attracted to bright flowers and need to feed on nectar.
They are an indicator of a healthy environment
a garden that attracts butterflies will also bring native bees and birds.
The make us happy
naturalist and veteran broadcaster sir David attenborough says spending time in nature-even just watching butterflies in a home garden-is good for mental health.
