Making Your Own Butterfly Houses & Feeder,

It is possible to make your own butterfly houses and feeders from objects around your home. Butterflies prefer specific foods and you can make these available in your garden. Butterflies like sunny warm spots, but if you are in a hot climate then shady areas are preferred. You can plan your garden to include specific butterfly attracting plants and flowers.
The butterflies' favorite food is over ripe fruit. This is a great type of food as it is inexpensive and easy to provide. If you have a fruit tree and you don't pick all of the fruit then the fallen fruit will provide a perfect feeding area for butterflies. You don't have to through out any rotten fruit but instead let the butterflies enjoy, and you can enjoy their presence in your garden. Their favorite fruit is rotten, sweet and even a little moldy.
You can use a ceramic or glass pie plate, dish with a slopping rim, or terra cotta or plastic plant saucer as a butterfly feeder that holds fruit. The plate needs to be suspended and you can easily use a flowerpot hanger. The fruit feeder should be hung from a shady tree where you can view it easily. Add slices of overripe fruit and add a little fruit juice or water if the fruit becomes dry.
Butterflies also love nectar and you can make your own butterfly nectar feeder using a jar, absorbent cotton, some twine and homemade nectar. Homemade nectar can be made by boiling 4 pats water to 1 part sugar and the allowing the mixture to cool. You punch holes in the jar lid, plug the holes with absorbent material, fill the jar with the nectar, put the lid on tightly and hang upside down. The absorbent material should hold the nectar without dripping.
Butterfly houses are specifically designed to protect the butterflies form the weather and any wind as well as any predatory birds. These house look like birdhouses but have long slits in the front for the butterfly to get in and keep the birds out. Tree bark or twigs will be in the inside of the house so the butterflies have something to rest on. The butterflies will use this house for shelter, particularly as the weather cools down.
You can attract a lot of butterflies to your butterfly house by having a butterfly feeder close by. Makes sure to place the house in a good viewing spot so you can enjoy any butterflies that decide to reside in your garden or yard.

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