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Gardens.com - Gardening for Kid
How to Create a Butterfly Feeding Station
Butterfly Food
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~Encouraging butterflies into your backyard garden
~ Help Kids to create a backyard wildlife habitat teeming with butterflies
~ Make a Butterfly feeding Station
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| How
to Make a Butterfly Feeding Station |
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| what
you will need: |
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Attract
Butterflies |
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old soft fruit
~ a bowl for mixing
~ a masher (a tool for mashing potatoes etc)
~ a feeding plate ( an old plate from the kitchen will do, use a couple
of you liek several feeding stations)
~ soft brown sugar |
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it is easy to attract butterfly into your kid garden
~ feed butterfly from the food station
~ lots of butterflies come into their wings late in summer and then hibernate
as adult butterflies
~ they need lots of sugar to build up their body fat reserves to help them
survive the cold winter season
~ plant flowewrs and plants that attract butterflies |
| How
to Make Butterflies Food |
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take some old soft fruit like bananas, old apples and pears,grapes, plums,
nectarines etc
~ when they are old they are overripe and soft enough to mash
~ add all your fruits into your mixing bowl , removing any hard stalks and
fruit pips
~ take the masher and mash them all up
~ now add some brown sugar into the butterflies food mix and stir again
~ Once the butterfly feeding mixture is nice and soft add a little water
to make it runny and easy for the butterflies to sip up
~ pour the butterfly feeding mixture onto your plate
~ find a suitable spot in your backyard wildlife garden and place the butterfly
food there
~ Watch the hungry butterflies enjoy their tasty food |
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Gardening with Kids |
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Creating a Wildlife Refuge for your local garden animals, insects,
butterflies, birds and bees takes only a few easy steps and is very rewarding
for any little kid gardener |
