Attracting Monarch Butterflies. Attracting monarch butterflies to the landscape begin with recognizing the fact that the monarch butterfly is attracted to different plants at different points of its life cycle. Courtesy hans peskowits a monarch butterfly feeding on a mexican sunflower.
I have updated the post to add new photos more tips for attracting monarch butterflies a project card to print out for your gardening journal and ideas for how to set up a butterfly way station. Attracting monarch butterflies in spring. Yet because of their population decline in recent decades they are becoming harder and harder to find.
Each spring monarch butterflies leave their warm wintering grounds in mexico for a long journey northward.
Attracting monarch butterflies is much similar to attracting other pollinators to the garden. Of course there s more to the butterfly world than monarchs. Beneficial insects are attracted to flowers that provide a steady source of nectar throughout the growing season. The monarch butterfly danaus plexippus is surely one of the most beautiful and fascinating insects in the world with its large reddish orange wings veined in strong black lines its soaring graceful flight and its amazing migratory habits the monarch is known to fly incredibly long distances and is one of the only.