The Butterfly Belt is a Backyard Columbus guide to starting small pollinator patches in everyday spaces: yards, patios, schools, churches, and neighborhoods. It’s not about perfection. It’s about giving butterflies, bees, and other pollinators more places to land.

Many pollinators face major challenges: climate change, habitat loss, sterile flowers and pesticides.

 

The migratory monarch butterfly, for example, known for its spectacular annual journey of up to 2,485 miles across the Americas, is particularly threatened by habitat destruction.  Without enough habitat, many monarchs simply can't find enough food (nectar sources) to make the journey.

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But here's the great part:  this is literally a situation we can change!  While many things seem out of our control, there's absolutely something most of us can do about the habitat loss of monarchs and other pollinators.

 

I want to help put the power back in our hands and share and show how easy it is to provide butterflies and other pollinators what they need. The Butterfly Belt is my simple way of encouraging more milkweed, nectar plants, host plants, and chemical-free spaces across our everyday yards. You don’t need acres, a meadow, or a perfect native plant garden. You just need a starting patch.

This is gonna be easy, I promise!  Let's get started:

Click HERE for Butterfly Basics or the drop down tab above

Click HERE for Butterfly Resources or the drop down tab above
 

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