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Butterfly House
Butterfly houses look similar to bird houses. They are usually made of wood and painted with bright colors which are said to serve as an attraction. A distinct feature that make butterfly house different from bird house is its different entrance structures. A bird house has an entrance in shape of a hole, while a butterfly house has a thin opening as its entrance. This entrance is several inches in length and a centimeter wide. This ensures that birds and other animals cannot get in. Place the butterfly house in an area that contains butterfly attracting plants, particularly which have flower nectar. One can place a small dish of sugar water inside, or on the ground beneath the butterfly house. The house should be placed on a pole or tree, four feet or more off the ground. Place it in the area that is sheltered from wind. Breeding and keeping butterflies and moths is a fascinating hobby, but the adults are very delicate so that special housing is necessary. If you keep them in a conventional cage they will soon have tattered wings, and a tank is useless as the humidity means that the wings adhere to the glass and the butterfly dies fairly swiftly. Butterfly cages are made of fine, soft nylon netting on a wooden frame, which work well for the insects as they can hold onto the mesh wherever they land. Perhaps the easiest way of keeping native species of butterflies and moths is to keep them in a sleeve, which is basically a large cylinder of nylon mesh, kept cylindrical along its length with a few wire hoops. The whole thing is slid over branch of the tree which is the food plant of the particular species, and one open end is tied around the wood. The insects are introduced into the cylinder and the other end is similarly attached further along the same branch, so that food plant and butterflies are all together in this cage, which is simplicity itself to make. How to make Plans for Making a Butterfly House
Building and taking care of a butterfly house is not a difficult task. Follow the above guidelines for the same. An excellent way of keeping caterpillars is to use an empty plastic fizzy drink bottle. These usually have an opaque bottomland if the transparent bit is cut away from this it can be slipped back on to make a mini greenhouse if a sleeve of the transparent plastic is glued inside the opaque cup. All, then, that is necessary is to stand a pot containing a growing food plant for the intended species inside, the eggs or caterpillars are carefully placed on the leaves with a paintbrush and the top is slid into place. A small piece of net held in position over the mouth of the bottle completes the job; but do not be tempted to replace the lid, as the humidity will build up to such an extent that the little caterpillar swill end up glued to the plastic by the film of water, and there they will die.
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Butterfly house makes a great addition to the home garden. It not only provides the butterflies with shelter from predators and bad weather, but also adds an eye-catching and lively element to the garden. Travelling butterflies need a place where they can rest. Butterfly house protects the butterflies from wind, cats, rains and birds.