Tom Terrific

Butterfly Gardening.Org

Bring Butterflies into Your Yard

9016 Robyn Rd
St Louis MO 63126
Phone: 314-849-6114

Find Out Which Butterflies Are in Your Area

There are only certain types of butterflies in any particular area. Find out which ones are in yours and invite them to your yard.

How do you find out which butterflies are in your area? There are a number of sources and ways.

1. http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm
This is a government site which lists all the butterflies of the United States.

2. The North American Butterfly Association has a site which shows the butterflies found in the North America..
http://www.naba.org/images/index.html

3. The book "Butterflies through Binoculars - The East ( The West)" by Dr. Jeffrey Glassberg is an excellent resource book listing butterflies East and West of the Mississippi. He also has a new book out called "Butterflies of North America."

4. Donald and Lillian Stokes have a couple of great butterfly identification books out, "Butterfly Book" and "Beginner's Guide to Butterflies."

5. Look around your neighborhood and parks and see which butterflies are flying about. There are a lot of butterflies at neighboring wildlife areas that I've never seen in my backyard, so I concentrate on selecting host plants and nectar plants which are attractive to the butterflies I do see.

For St. Louis and surrounding areas, here's more localized information.

http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/mo/toc.htm
This is a government site which lists all the butterflies of Missouri with photos.

The St Louis Chapter of The North American Butterfly Association has a site which shows the butterflies found in the St Louis/Gateway area.
http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabasl/list.htm

The book, "Butterflies and Moths of Missouri" shows the range of each particular Missouri butterfly.

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