Butterfly Gardening

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Bring beautiml butterflies to your own backyard by creating a butterfly garden with the help of renowned lepidopterist Dr. Thomas C. Emmel. Butterfly Gardening takes you step by step through choosing plants to attract the butterf Hes in your area, arranging them to fit yoiu* garden and their needs, and maintaining your garden once you have established it. Beyond the garden s creation. Butterfly Gardening will teach you how to identify your new visitors with handy tips and a beautifid photograph galleiy of butterflies. With the help of Butterfly Gardening, you can estabhsh a fun hobby and a gorgeous refuge for you and yoiu- winged friends to enjoy.

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to branch, alighting just for a moment for you to observe its beauly before moving on, it lends its color to all the plants on which it perches. What if you could bring the beauty of butterflies to... Tovább

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Bring beautiml butterflies to your own backyard by creating a butterfly garden with the help of renowned lepidopterist Dr. Thomas C. Emmel. Butterfly Gardening takes you step by step through choosing plants to attract the butterf Hes in your area, arranging them to fit yoiu* garden and their needs, and maintaining your garden once you have established it. Beyond the garden s creation. Butterfly Gardening will teach you how to identify your new visitors with handy tips and a beautifid photograph galleiy of butterflies. With the help of Butterfly Gardening, you can estabhsh a fun hobby and a gorgeous refuge for you and yoiu- winged friends to enjoy.

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Is there any creature more beautiful than
a colorful butterfly? As it flits from leaf
to branch, alighting just for a moment for you to observe its beauly before moving on, it lends its color to all the plants on which it perches. What if you could bring the beauty of butterflies to enhance your own garden? With the help of Butterfly Gardening, you can. Butterfly Gardening will show you how to encourage butterflies to remain in your garden to sip nectar from your flowers and start their next generations on your plants, giving you the opportunity to watch them mature from caterpillars to butterflies.
Make these fascinating creatures part of your world by creating a home for them in your garden. Butterfly Gardening will show you how to:
• design a butterfly garden to be attractive to people and butterflies
• select plants that butterflies in your area will flock to
• lure different species to your garden
• plant appropriate larval host plants and nectar sources for the butterflies
• care for your butterfly garden
• learn about the species that visit your garden by keeping a journal
Butterfly Gardening includes a gallery of butterflies, a useful guide that will help you to attract the butterflies near your home and identify those that visit, with illustrations of each species, descriptions of their habitats, and hsts of their nectar sources and larval host plants.
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There's also a list of sources that can help you in starting your butterfly garden and selected organizations and clubs where you can meet with other butterfly gardening enthusiasts.
Butterfly gardening can be more than a fun hobby and the creation of a beautiful home for yourself and the butterflies; these special gardens can affect the balance of nature positively by helping to save endangered species such as the Schaus' Swallowtail and the El Segundo Blue. With simple instructions and inspiring tales, Butterfly Gardening can help you establish a fulfilhng hobby and a gorgeous refuge for you and your winged friends to enjoy.
About the Author
Dr. Thomas C. Emmel has been a professor of zoology and entomology at the Universily of Florida, Gainesville, since 1968. He is particularly interested in the ecology, biology, and conservation of butterflies, and travels annually to countries such as Malaysia, Kenya, Russia, Ghana, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, and Costa Rica to pursue his interests. He has done a number of projects with endangered species, including captive propagation and reintroduction of the Schaus' Swallowtail butterfly to the wald. Emmel is the author of 300 articles and more than 25 books, including Butterf Lied, Butterf lie.' of the Florida Keyj, FlorSa'j FabuloM Butterfluui, and The Butterfliej of Southern California. He lives in Gainesville with five dogs, one Shetland pony, and four geese.
Jacket photographs:
Insets and silhouettes: Elton N. Woodbuiy, ©ATL Lepidoptera Research Fund Background: ©Charles Mann
Jacket design: Eddy Herch Vissza