Gardening For Butterflies
by Edith

60 min DVD-$9.95


Filmed and Produced by Shady Oak Butterfly Farm in Florida - A commercial butterfly farm producing thousands of butterflies a week.

Some of the few things you will learn:

  • Learn how to turn your garden into a butterfly habitat, not only attracting but also producing hundreds of butterflies.
  • Learn how to choose nectar plants to feed butterflies as well as larval food plants for immature butterflies to eat.
  • What other food does a butterfly eat? Learn which delicacies to add to you garden.
  • Learn how to spot predators who view your butterflies at lunch.
  • Watch a caterpillar change into a chrysalis then later emerge as a butterfly
  • See how chrysalises and butterflies use camouflage to hide even when they are in plain sight.
  • Watch butterflies as they court in midair, mate, and lay eggs.
  • See and learn what caterpillars eat.
  • What happens to all the nectar butterflies drink? See a butterfly pee.
  • Watch the four stages of a butterflies’ life cycle: Egg, Caterpillar, Chrysalis and Adult.
  • See the stages of life through eleven different butterfly species. See caterpillars from white to green to orange and yellow to burgundy.
  • Watch a chrysalis twist and swing in response to the touch of a passing caterpillar.
  • Did you know that butterflies do not make cocoons?
  • Did you know that a caterpillar changes into a chrysalis in only three minutes?
  • Learn how to hold and handle a butterfly without hurting it.
  • Can a butterfly fly with scales missing and wings damaged?


  • To purchase this DVD, please email Edith@BuyaButterfly.com

    or Call 352-485-2458

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