Butterfly Feeder

Bailey LOVES butterflies and we planted some plants that should attract butterflies to our garden, but so far only moths. Today we decided to try putting butterfly feeders in our yard to see if that would attract some of the beauties to our yard. We used some paper bowls and construction paper to make our feeder and stirred a batch of butterfly nectar to use as feed. (We mixed 1 T sugar, 2 T beer and maybe 1/4 c apple juice - you can also use fermented fruit or rum in place of the beer) We placed them on our bushes in the back yard and now we wait...

All you need to make your own butterfly feeder!

Gregory cutting out petals for his flower

Bailey doing the same

Butterfly nectar - Mix some sugar, beer and apple juice and abracadabra, you have nectar!

Gregory mixing

Here's Bailey's butterfly flower feeder

Saturate some cotton balls with "nectar"

Place cotton balls in the center and place feeder on a bush

and wait for all those colorful butterflies to come visit!