Butterfly Gardening And Butterflies Found In Pennsylvania

Butterfly Haven

159 Hillside Lane

New Ringgold, Pa 17960

Schuylkill County

USA

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Butterfly Gardening In Pennsylvania

How to attract butterflies to your garden and keep them there.

Butterfly gardens are easy to plant. They have a lot of color, are fragrant, and have no special shape. The best gardens resemble fields that have been left go. This garden should have either a few trees or large bushes to protect the butterflies from the wind or rain. Your garden should be positioned so it gets plenty of sunshine. Just plant large masses of the nectar and host plants listed below.

Create a "puddle" for butterflies to get extra moisture and minerals. Don't forget to place a large flat rock for a basking spot to complete your "Butterfly Haven."

Nectar Plants

Nectar Plants are the ones used by the butterflies for food. The butterflies will land on these plants and uncoil their proboscis to drink the sweet nectar.

Annuals
Alyssum
Cosmos
Heliotrope
Marigolds
Nasturtium
Salvia
Zinnia

Biennials
Red Clover
Queen Anne's Lace

Sweet William

Perennials
Asters
Bee Balm
Butterfly Bush (Buddliea)
Butterfly Weed
White Clover
Coreopsis
Purple Coneflower
Hollyhock
Lavendar
Lupine
Phlox
Black-eyed Susan
Salvia
Shasta Daisy
Thistles
Violets
Yarrow

Host Plants

Host plants are the plants or trees that each particular species of butterfly needs to lay her eggs on. It is also the plant or tree leaves the larvae will then eat. If the butterfly can't find their host plant they won't substitute any other plant. So these are essential for a thriving butterfly garden.

Just find the butterflies you would like to attract to your garden (check to see if they are naturally found in your area), then plant their host plant.

Butterfly
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Pipevine Swallowtail
Spicebush Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Black Swallowtail
Orange Sulphur
Cloudless Sulphur
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Great Spangled Fritillary
Meadow Fritillary
Baltimore Checkerspot
Question Mark
Eastern Comma
Mourning Cloak
American Lady
Painted Lady
Red Admiral
Common Buckey
Red-spotted Purple
Viceroy
Monarch

Host Plant
Cherry & Tulip Trees
Pipevines
Sassafras Trees & Spicebush
Mustard Family incl. Cabbage
Carrots, Parsley, Parsnip, Queen Anne's Lace
Pea Family, incl. Alfalfas, clovers, vetches
Sennas
Pea Family
Violet Family
Violet Family
Turtlehead, Plantains
Elms, Nettles, Hackberry
Hop Vines, Elms, Nettles
Willow, Elms
Everlastings
Hollyhock, Thistles, Nettles
Nettles
Gerardias, Plantains
Cherry, Aspen Trees
Willows, Aspen Trees
Milkweed Family

How to attract butterflies to your garden and keep them there.

Nectar Plants

Host Plants

All you have to do is plant the right plants, and the butterflies will come into your "Butterfly Haven" and stay.