Your Florida Guide to Butterfly Gardening: A Guide for the Deep South

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This colorful illustrated guide shows you how simple it may be to start a butterfly garden today!
The book, the third in the preferred Your Florida Guide series, offers a thorough look at Florida’s most important butterflies and the plants they prefer for food, shelter, and egg laying. The guide helps you choose plants for a yard where butterflies can live and return year after year. It includes planting diagrams, easy one-day container projects, and full garden layouts designed for each of Florida’s three major growing zones and suitable for gardens all the way through the Deep South.
The writer, an avid lepidopterist, persuaded his household to allow their garage to develop into a butterfly farm and raised a number of the creatures pictured in the book. The full-color photographs, all taken by him, show butterflies, the caterpillars they develop from, food plants, host plants, and garden designs.
Of special interest is a section on conservation that describes the way individuals can act in the neighborhood to make stronger the quality and biodiversity of their environment.


Jaret C. Daniels is curator of lepidoptera for Butterfly Kingdom Conservatory in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Formerly the manager of the Boender Endangered Species Laboratory at the University of Florida, Gainesville, he has written extensively on butterflies and other a good option insects in such publications as Fine Gardening, American Butterflies, and Tropical Lepidoptera. For the past nine years he has worked on the ecology and conservation of several endangered and threatened butterfly species in Florida and the Caribbean, including the Schaus Swallowtail.

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