Flower season is almost here! Flowers can bring in wonderful butterfly visitors. Today is a day that highlights educating yourself about butterflies.
Butterfly facts:
- There are more than 20,000 types of butterflies worldwide.
- Their wing spans can range from 1/2 inch to 11 inches.
- Butterflies in their adult stage can live from a week to nearly a year, depending on the species.
- Many butterflies migrate over long distances. Particularly famous migrations are those of the Monarch butterfly from Mexico to the northern USA and southern Canada, a distance of about 2500 to 3000 miles.
How to Observe:
National Calendar - read about them or go find a nice spot to butterfly watch.
Butterfly Friendly Flowers:
If you want butterfly visitors plant nectar and pollen rich flowers. Keep your gardening pesticides butterfly friendly or figure out 'natural' methods that don't hurt butterflies. This ensures at least a few friends popping in.
Bee balm, Phlox, Zinnia, Lavender, Daylily, Cosmos are just a few flowers that can help bring visiting butterflies. There's way more out there these are just a few I typed in.
Now for books that include Butterflies on their book cover. Whether they educate you on butterflies or not..ehh.
A fantasy novel that involves reincarnation. When Ana is born though a soul vanishes and they do not know why. There are dragons and sylphs and romance in this book.
Incarnate - Jodi Meadows
and being gay is a capital offense.
Emily is being forced into a forced marriage to her landlords son -- problem force marriage & she was born a boy. She with her brother flee toward freedom to continue being herself.
Told in vignettes and set in 1970s
An angel war is happening everything is going bad fast for Skyla.
Butterfly by Sonya Hartnett. A coming of age set in the 80s in Australia.
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