Butterfly Feeders
Presence of bright and colorful butterflies in your back yard can increase the beauty of you back yard many folds. In order to attract these butterflies bird lovers place butterfly houses in their garden. Even though they are not very useful but they do enhance the beauty of the garden. Most recommended way of attracting the butterflies is through butterfly feeders. Butterflies prefer open and clear sunny places. Therefore place the butterfly feeder at such a place where it is easily accessible by the butterflies. Butterflies generally eats nectar from the flowers, some other food which they can rely on are bananas, peaches, apples, oranges etc. butterflies usually like soft food so of you have a over ripped banana or a soft peach which is not eatable you can easily offer it to the butterflies. They will be more than happy to consume it for you. One of the substitute foods for butterflies can easily be made at home. Just add a small amount of sugar in water and boil it so that the sugar is dissolved completely. Now place the solution on a butterfly feeder and your butterfly food is ready. Another way to make it is to freeze a banana until its skin turns black. When this banana is defrosted is make a soft and mushy substance which is very much favored by the butterflies.
You can offer all the food to butterflies through butterfly feeders which are available in the market. You can also build a butterfly feeder at home. Many butterfly feeder plans are available on the internet. Just grab any of these plans and start building a butterfly feeder of your own. Many butterfly feeder kits are present in the market which makes it easier to make a butterfly feeder. Just follow the instruction written in the kit and you will get a beautiful butterfly feeder to place in your garden.
How To Make A Butterfly Feeder:
One of the easiest ways to make a home made butterfly feeder is explained below:
• All what you need to make a butterfly feeder is a jar with a small opening or a lid, cotton and a string to hang the butterfly feeder.
• Make a small opening in the mouth of the jar
• Place a small piece of cotton on the hole. Make sure it is air tight, other will it will start dripping butterfly food.
• Fill the jar with butterfly food
• Invert the jar and hang it from somewhere in your garden.
• The butterflies will suck the food from the cotton which will be soaked with butterfly food.
• Butterflies are attracted towards flowers, so paint and decorate the jar with bright colors. The jar should look like a flower to the butterflies than they will be attracted towards it.
• A painted and a colorful jar will not only attract the butterflies but it will also look beautiful in your garden.
• The butterfly feeder will not only attract the butterflies but it will also attract various other annoying insects. So it is advisable to place it away from your window so that you are not disturbed by these insects.
• Hygiene is very important. Rotten food may harm the butterflies. Therefore make sure that you clean the butterfly feeder regularly.
Butterflies are very innocent and beautiful creatures, therefore add a bright colored butterfly feeder in your garden along with the bird feeder to increase the beauty and style of your garden.
