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Attracting the Eastern Pine Elfin to Your Garden
Eastern Pine Elfin / Callophrys niphon
Wingspan: 2.5 – 3.2 cm (1 – 1.25 in)
The Eastern Pine Elfin butterfly is a member of the Lycaenidae family,...
How to attract clouded sulphur butterflies to your garden
Clouded Sulphur / Colias philodice
Wingspan: 3.8 – 7cm (1.5 – 2.75 in)
A Butterfly Garden is a Bird Friendly Garden
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The Orange Sulphur butterfly. You can attract this small butterfly to your garden by having the host and nectar plants it needs for its survival.
Black Swallowtail – Papilio polyxenes
Black Swallowtail butterflies are large butterflies that belong to the Papilionidae family. Black Swallowtails range throughout eastern North America, in the southwest...
Papilio canadense
The Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadense), is a beautiful yellow and black striped butterfly that may be a common visitor to your garden. This butterfly could become a resident...