How Do You Make A Butterfly Mud Bath?
Flowers are certainly a key component of a butterfly garden, but if you want to lure in a wide range of butterflies, you’ll need to add an unexpected feature to your garden: mud. Many butterflies, including Swallowtails, feed on nectar from flowers, but they also get essential minerals and salts from mud and animal manures. Butterflies often gather in mud puddles–a phenomenon called mud-puddling. You can create a more attractive mud puddle in your garden by building a special butterfly mud bath in a flowerbed. Here’s how to make one. Step 1 Choose a sunny spot in your garden to build the butterfly mud bath. Placing the bath in a flower garden planted with heliotrope, asters, zinnias, sunflowers, lavender, coreopsis and other nectar-rich flowers will help ensure that butterflies pay a visit. Step 2 Place a glazed ceramic pot saucer in the site you’ve selected for the bath. Fill the saucer to within a ½ inch of the rim with a 1:1 mix of garden soil and composted steer manure, which is a
