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VIDEO: How to Plant a Garden That Attracts Butterflies
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Gaaaaaa! Please don't plant butterfly bush, it is highly invasive. Non native invasive plants pull pollinators away from native plants and make our ecological problems even worse! They provide NO food for caterpillars, and you cannot have a butterfly without a caterpillar. A chickadee feeds 5000 to 9000 of these to get its chicks from egg to fledgling. Interesting too you mention moths as an after thought. There are 12,500 moth species, only 825 butterfly, and 4,000 native bees in North America. So if you want the ecology to keep functioning, stick to native plants, check any others you plant to ensure they are not invasive BEFORE you plant (the nature of invasive is that it is hard to remove…backbreakingly hard), and stop with 24 hour lights. A burglar will not know if you are home or not, and will need a flashlight, more likely to make noise stumbling around, etc. You will have more money in your pocket. See moths at your window? Pull the shade. At least get a yellow light bulb, which will reduce the numbers attracted! Buy fixtures with hats that only light where needed. We ask people to call if they come over, and only light outside if we can't see and when we are there. Oregano, mint, and many thistles are also invasive plants. Get your facts from a scientist…you tube Doug Tallamy an actual entomologist, fascinating, and entertaining lecturer. Get some popcorn and let him show you how to be a force of good and prevent local extinction!