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What is butterfly gardening?

Below are individual pages on specific topics about butterfly gardening.

• Butterfly gardening basics and tips

• Butterfly Gardening in Northern Virginia, a handout created by club member and naturalist Alsonso Abugattas.

• What do caterpillars eat?

• Growing Turtlehead from Seed Turtlehead is the host plant of the disappearing Baltimore Checkerspot; here are tips on how to grow this important plant from seed

• Good nectar plants for attracting butterflies

• Deer-resistant butterfly plants

• Butterfly gardening resources
  Includes clubs and associations, books, and plant sources and sales

• Public Butterfly Gardens
  The best public butterfly gardens to visit in the D.C. area

Butterfly gardening
Home page of a WABC member; contains information about all aspects of butterfly gardening

Host plants for D.C. butterflies
List created from a WABC member's ongoing research project

Host plants
Searchable worldwide database from the London Natural History Museum

How to Make Butterfly Gardens
Resource from the University of Kentucky; includes some photos of nectar plants

Butterfly Gardening from Monarch Watch
Includes information on creating schoolyard butterfly gardens

Articles on butterfly gardening
Extensive list of articles by many individuals

• Adobe Acrobat PDF File of this document

• To Washington Area Butterfly Club Home Page