How to Create a Butterfly Puddle

Butterflies are pollinators that add beauty to your garden. You can attract them by adding a food source like fennel, dill and Queen Anne’s Lace. Mature butterflies have a feeding tube called a proboscis which allows them to dip in and take nectar from flowers and moisture from the ground; you may have seen butterflies around the edge of mud puddles that form after a rain. You can simulate a mud puddle at home and fortify it with nutrients so you can have really healthy butterflies. Learn how to create a butterfly puddle in this P. Allen Smith video:

The recipe is very simple; you’re just basically making a mud pie. Fill a flat ceramic container with mud, then pour a solution of water, sugar and salt over it (mix one cup of water, three teaspoons of sugar and a little pinch of salt). The butterflies can land on the edge of the container and take the moisture up.