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There are a lot of plants to attract butterflies,the problem is finding the ones that will grow in your area, and on a balcony. Contact your local garden shop /or go to the web site for your region,in my area(pennsilvania.u.s.a)we use a bush that’s called..a( butterfly bush ). It seams to me they are attracted to almost any sweet smelling flower.look for low growing balcony plants.also in my yard i have out 4/5 humming bird feeders that the butterflies also seem to like.good luck. There a joy to watch.

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Milkweed for flutterbys and trumpet vine for the hummers

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Have a look at the site below, it has all different types of vines that attract butterflies.
The amazon store below contains some of the vines listed.
Happy gardening. =)

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Some flowers and bushes are lilacs, snapdragons, petunias, Japanese honeysuckle, butterfly bush, privet, etc. Plant nectar-producing flowers and bushes. Plant colorful flowers in groups. Butterflies are also drawn to water.

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You might like this site, browse through it it has the name and pictures of plants for attracting butterflies

http://www.floridata.com/lists/butterfly_plants.cfm

Native plants are a good choice and you might want to consider researching host plants that they will live on..

Http://www.biospherenursery.com/pages/birdsandbutterflies.html

Of course if you are looking for one plant the Butterfly bush (Buddleia) is great I have one outside my kitchen window and they will also atract the hummingbirds, and the hummingbird moth..
Http://img.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-&p=Butterfly%20bush

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Try a few other locations. An open area, with nothing over the feeder. Maybe spread some bird food on the ground. Keep the pets away, especially cats. There are periods when birds do not visited feeders frequently. When raising young. Make sure the bird food is not contaminated with fungus or bacteria.

It would help if you could identify birds in your area. That way you could find out their food preferences. Check with neighbors that feed birds or check with a local bird watching club or Audubon.

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Birds in a backyard is an enjoyable experience for many. Children love to get involved in naming the different birds and birdwatching is a serious hobby for many people. For those who would like to attract more birds to a yard or garden, here are some great tips.

Step 1-The easiest thing to do to attract birds is to affix a bird feeder somewhere in the yard, patio or garden so they may eat. Different birds like different things: a hummingbird needs special sugar syrup in a liquid, goldfinches like thistleseed, starlings and nuthatches enjoy peanuts (raw, never salted), bluejays like sunflower seeds and sparrows like millet.

Step 2-Another easy way to attract birds is to plant a few favorite flowers of the birds. Hummingbirds enjoy red flowers, and those that produce nectar. Obvious choices are hibiscus and honeysuckle.

Step 3-Birds also enjoy fruits. Fresh or dried fruits can be used. Orioles, Mockingbirds and Western Tanagers like apples or oranges.

Step 4-Adding a bird bath to a garden or yard with no pond will also encourage birds to stop by. Birds are especially attracted to running water so a little fountain bubbling softly will be nice for them. Use recycling pumped water so that water is not wasted.

Step 5-Birdhouses or nestboxes are another way to encourage birds ‘spend the night’ at your house.

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It is best to have bird food in the garden 12 months of the year, and they will notice it, even when not needed, such as when there is an abundance of wild food out there.

If you have fences, you could attach feeders to these. The main bird feed used in my garden are fat balls (disappearing at the rate of 1 a day at present, due to the newborn), sunflower seeds, eaten by tons of birds, and mixed seed feeds.

For tub growing, I’d go for a range of plants, some evergreen and some deciduous. This will provide shelter and cover, as well as somewhere to sit and rest. Look for a hardy Hibiscus plant, a shrub that is deciduous, and flowers for your benefit during the summer too. Find a slower growing conifer, otherwise they’ll want to be huge trees in next to no time, and this will provide some evergreen cover. Honeysuckle would be great in a tub, this produces berries for autumn/wionter feeding, as well as sweetly scented flowers during summer. Pyracantha is a wall shrub, meaning it can be grown to cover a wall – these have flowers and berries for winter feeding – loved by blackbirds etc. Blackbirds also love apples, so you could include a small apple tree, or just feed them some occasional apples – I cut the tops off them, and then they peck away at the inside.

Here are some links to photos and info:
Hardy Hibiscus – http://springhillnursery.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_08151
Pyracantha – http://www.waysidegardens.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/StoreCatalogDisplay?storeId=10151&catalogId=10151&langId=-1&mainPage=LGprodview&ItemId=47381&cid=wext00004
Honeysuckle – http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plantprofile_honeysuckle.shtml
Conifer – http://www.conifer.com.au/objectlibrary/1450
Dwarf apple – http://www.gardens4you.co.uk/index.php?/Patio/Dwarf-Growing-Apple-Red-Spur.html

Style your garden to suit your tastes, and incorporate something for the birds that you’d like. I’m not sure if you just would like more birds, or to attract specific ones, as some of them have special tastes – eg. Goldfinch birds love Nyger seeds (I placed this into my garden and after a couple of months, Goldfinches miraculously appeared!) Just beware of really fast growing conifers, which could take all of your light. I’m not sure where you live, so I’ve included plants that can be grown pretty much everywhere.

Finally, give them water too, to bathe in and to drink, which they may need after eating seeds. If you have a safe spot for a nesting box, put this up as soon as possible, as the birds will know where it is, long before nesting time, in preparation for use.

Hope this helps. Good luck! Rob

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In addition to various mixes of wild bird seed and black sunflower seed, you can offer nectar for hummingbirds, and grape jelly for orioles (you can get jelly feeders at any wild bird store) Suet will attract woodpeckers, nuts and pinecones rolled in peanut butter will bring in chickadees and blue jays. You can also take apples and oranges and cut them in half and peg them on tree branches (or on wooden dowels attached to a flat board hung on a tree) for catbirds and other fruit eaters. You can offer mealworms for insectivores as well.

Vary your feeders – some birds are ground feeders and will not eat at a hanging feeder; other birds prefer something about 3-4 feet off the ground.

If you want to keep squirrels out of your birdseed, get exclusionary feeders. Some work on weight – when a squirrel or large bird gets on the feeder, the openings for the feed close and the animal can not get to the seed – and some of them work on size – the feeder is encased in a wire cage, and the openings are too small for a squirrel or large bird to get through, but the small birds fit through the wire and can eat.

Don’t forget a birdbath – you will attract as many birds by providing water for drinking and bathing as you will attract with food.

Also, if your yard is big enough to place some nesting boxes away from the feeding area, you may get some birds to raise their families there. Just never place the nesting boxes close to the food, as the food attracts predators that could invade the nest boxes and destroy the eggs or eat the babies.

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Go to your local pet or feed store, buy a bird seed mix. They love the sunflower seeds best (get the bird ones, the roasted and salted human ones aren’t good for the birds). Just put this out and the birds will come. I started doing this on my deck so the cat would have something entertaining to watch through the windows while I was at work…and after a few weeks had literally hundreds of birds a day come by in the mornings and evenings for seeds. Then the cat (who sometimes would sit outside and watch them) figured out how to catch the birds and I had to stop.

Try to feed them in a way they aren’t vulnerable to predators and cats (I thought I had this figured out but my cat must be smarter than me). Once a couple birds find your seeds, others will see them and it will become a zoolike endeavor. I’ve been feeding a bit lately in a more protected spot and have about a dozen species that come in for food, it’s very fun to watch!

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“I want to be different” – That’s where most of the guys dont understand that a girl does not want something out of ordinary…..she just expects you to be yourself and most of the guys try to act more charming and caring, etc which, trust me, gets them nowhere……….. So be yourself and that will really help you…good luck!!

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Well Republicans for one don’t exactly have a history of supporting causes that women might have an interest in, like abortion rights, birth control, and equal wages.

Besides, many of the women in politics nowadays, like Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann, are an embarrassment to women.

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Lot’s of £50 notes.

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Yes, a smile catches a womens eye and make her wonder about you!

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Because it is a skill required to be happy in life, and who said living would be easy, if it was, then life would be boring since there is no challenge and no consequences. So just be happy you have a normal life.

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The box would have to large and flat for the owl to see it and it wouldn’t need to be lit. A light might discourage the owls .There’s the possibility that the owl might hear it though in box and find it. Guys that trap owls to band, put mice in hardware cloth cages with nylon snares. You could do that without the snares. If you want to have some fun, Take your cage with mouse inside and go road hunting for hawks etc and drop the cage off when you see a bird and get out of the way. Snowy Owls are real suckers. They will zoom right in on it. Google Image:> “bal chatri traps” to see all the different rigs.

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Buy some mice and let them loose. Just make sure they have good milkshakes.

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The cages will prevent the owl from seeing and hearing the prey. I doubt it will happen. Your best chances will be to locate a field and sit in a hidden place and watch to see if any owls hunt there at night. You might try to locate a farmer who has barn owls on his property.

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Hummingbirds can see wavelengths into the near-ultraviolet, so yes they can see the color blue.

Hope this helped!

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The minimum territory size I can find seems to be 14 acres, so I doubt you could get more than one nesting pair in your yard. It isn’t clear to me whether or not they are nesting in a box/tree in your yard, or just hanging out. If there isn’t a box in your yard yet, you might be able to get them to move in, but you’re not going to get 2 pairs.

Here’s a fun fact I found while looking this up:

A 4-kg domestic chicken is the largest known prey item!

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Essentially, one liquid ounce consumed per day suggests nearly 6 hummingbird equivalents are feeding at the feeder per day. Extrapolate that further and you’ll note that one gallon of sugar water consumed per day suggests about 750 hummingbirds are feeding per day.

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Plant the things they like. Butterflies love zinnias and they are very easy to grow and inexpensive. Hummingbirds like trumpet shaped flowers like moonflowers, scarlet runner beans, and trumpet vines.

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Feeders and flowers are the best thing to attract them, and of course trees for perching. Hummingbirds are not cavity nesters so will not use a nesting box. They nest in trees and scrubs. They make very tiny nests that can be hard to spot.

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You need to use Sugar Water homemade mix. 1 cup sugar to 4 cups water. My feeders are not near anything red and the birds are draining them daily

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Http://www.hummingbirds.net/2008maps.html

check this map…. Find your area and see WHEN the first sighting was last year… Put your feeders out about the same time this year….

There’s more info here..

Http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&q=hummingbird%20maps&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw

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3) The mating call of a male frog attracts a predator, which then proceeds to eat the frog.
The predator is not a mate. Arguably, this could be considered negative sexual selection, the trade-off to finding a mate.

The alternate answer would be 2, but not specifying the traits which allow one male to have the advantage in drowning a competitor doesn’t really disqualify it.

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Maybe it’s your guardian angel Or the spirit of a passed on loved one!

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The most insect(bees butterfly’s dragonflies and humming bird)covered plants in my perennial bed are sunflowers,cone flowers,Monardia and Asters. The Monardia blooms late July into the end of August and boy are the bugs attracted to it and then once the flowering stops then the Asters start blooming and then all of the insects go to the Asters the Asters continue to bloom until frost.Its interesting to see bees on this flower until October.I live in Montana so some times we have Late seasons but normal frost time is about the 20th of September.(Monardia is a staple in any perennial bed you will not be disappointed)

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As far as the Moths, I would get some moth balls… It is believed that seeing butterflies means your life is headed in the right direction. Some believe that they are spirits of loved ones…Dragonflies,I have no idea..

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Thanks for writing my admission paper for MSU!

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For initial attraction yes because men are visual. After the first couple of dates, no, I do not think looks are the best asset for keeping his attentions. Brains and personality are more important at this stage in a relationship.

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Your horoscope: Today you will learn that stars are burning balls of gas and dust being drug through the cosmos at random by various forces. You will accept that there is no rational basis to assume that their positioning has any sway in your life. You will accept full responsibility for the direction your life takes, and will stop falling victim to charlatans and idiotic superstition.

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Men are almost always attracted to a young fresh-smelling, pert-walking girl, with a sexy figure – long shapely legs, moderate firm boobs, and goodlooking…with a cheeky flirty way with her.
Yes, we men are that shallow!
But it`s true.

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We dont know. Like most things, we just ARE attracted.
After a few dates or smth we realise a Leo woman speaks up for herself and her peers, she’s not afraid to tell it how it is…
We deeply admire, respect and NEED that, as Aries men. Cause allthough we’re all action and honesty and we’re bold, and afraid of no one, we lack the ability to speak our mind with complex detail and precision, and incisive, convincing tact like Leo does (especially women)…

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Okay. I’m seeing a lot of people really freaking out here and I think that’s unnecessary so I’m going to throw my 2 cents in.
Whether or not this is a serious issue really depends on what your sister means when she says she finds older men attractive. When I was 15, I thought men in their 40s were more attractive because I was totally turned off by pimply, baby-faced, immature teenage boys who didn’t really seem all that masculine to me (sorry boys, I know it’s cruel but it’s also true). It’s not that I wanted to date them or anything, I just found them more attractive. And that’s the important distinction to make here. There’s a pretty big difference between finding someone attractive/fantasizing about them and actually becoming involved with them.
So I would say if your sister is just finding older men attractive but has the maturity/common sense not to be trying to become involved with them, this is totally normal and not something to be terribly worried about. Freaking out over it will just blow it way out of porportion. I would ask your sister if she would date an older man at the age she is now, and also observe how she interacts with older men-if she’s actively putting herslf out there, she’s definitely at risk of being exploited.
Basically what I’m saying is that until she’s acting on the attraction in a way that will really put her at risk, it’s not something you should be terribly worried about. I think the best thing to do is take a ‘watch and wait’ approach unless she is actively putting herself in harm’s way.

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To attract butterflies you should plant flowers that attract them like Perennias and Annuals.
To attract birds you should have trees for them to build nests. Some trees with berries.
Cardinals like roses. Make your backyard a safe place for them with no cats.
Also try bird feeders with wild bird seed.

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Trees
Hornbean; Red Buckeye; River Birch; Hackberry; Redbud; Fringe Tree; Flowering Dogwood; Witch Hazel; Possum Haw; American Holly; Black Walnut; Sweet Gum; Sweetbay; Black Gum; Sourwood; Shortleaf and Loblolly Pine; Sycamore; Wild Plum; Carolina Buckthorn

Shrubs

Downy Serviceberry; Juneberry; Indigo Bush; American Beautyberry; Carolina Allspice; Buttonbush; Pogoda Dogwood; Southern Bush Honeysuckle; Wahoo; Yaupon; Winterberry; Spicebush; Christmas Berry; Huckleberry; Shining and Smooth Sumac; Sparkleberry; Black Haw; Witherod Viburnum

Wildflowers
Sweet Flag; Blue Star; Columbine; Jack-in-the-pulpit; Wild Ginger; Swamp Milkweed; Butterflyweed; Bushy, New England and Frost Aster; White False Indigo; Wild Hyacinth; American Bellflower; Turtlehead; Early and Tall Coreopsis; Shooting Star; Purple Coneflower; Rattlesnake Master; Joe- pye Weed; Narrow-leaved and Ox-eye Sunflower; Marsh Blazing Star; Gayfeather; Blazing Star; Cardinal Flower; Great Blue Lobelia; Partridge Berry; Carolina and Blue Phlox; Black-eyed Susan; Cut-leaf Coneflower; Golden Ragwort; Blue-stemmed, Sweet and Rough-leaved Goldenrod; Foam Flower; Rose Vervain; Common Blue and Birdsfoot Violet

Vines
Crossvine; Virgin’s Bower; Yellow Jessamine, Coral Honeysuckle; Virginia Creeper; Passionflower

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Scatter some bits of food on the floor around the fat ball feeders.
Some birds are ground feeders – blackbirds for example. If they come flying in for food it will attract the attention of the small birds like blue tits which come to hanging feeders.
If you want a good selection of wildlife you need a variety of foods and ideally to keep food in the garden for them all year. They will repay you by hanging around and eating all the insects like aphids and caterpillers which are intent on killing your soft plants, and once they know there is a food bar, will return time and time again.
Don’t forget water in cold weather. Many birds die because they have nothing to drink. A bird bath which you thaw every day will be very welcome for drinking and keeping their feathers in time to protect them during the cold nights.

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Invasive plant removal, native plant restoration

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Well my grandpa puts out bird food. He sprinkles a cup of it on the patio and the birds swarm like crazy. And every once and a while he will throw out a ripped up bagle or bread. They like cereal too.

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Hummingbirds are very attracted to the shades of red and other brightly colored flowers!! (or tree blossoms!)
I’ve got them in my yard every day….Here’s what they go after….
Bottlebrush tree, Fushia’s, butterfly bush, hibiscus, trumpet vine, tulip trees, bee balm, Nasturtiums,red geraniums, penstemons, lupines, petunias, coral bells honeysuckles and Columbine just to name a few! To keep them in your yard there has to be a plentiful amount of nectar availble for them. They need to eat about every 10 to 15 minutes so there constantly on the look out. They can visit perhaps 1,000 blossoms in a day,though they get there protein from small knat, spiders and other small flying insects, plus what little insects may be on the flower. Right there that’s a meal and a drink for them! LOL

Good luck….now go out and buy some plants and watch them visit your yard. I’ve got three fushias hanging right on my porch so I have the hummers right near the window to enjoy!!

SmileyCat : )

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Well done for your efforts in helping wild birds.

Firstly, are you filling the feeder with the recommended sugared water? If the solution is too weak or too strong, the birds may have tried it and prefer the natural flowers.

Although there is natural food sources close by, birds will often choose to rely on a regular supply of food put out by humans. It then becomes important to maintain the feeding.

It can take weeks or even months for the birds to become accustomed to new artificial feeders, so stick with it.

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Because the color shades they can see are green and red. And since most of their surroundings are green (trees) the red stands out to them.

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I know that they love Fuchsia, Honeysuckle, and if space allows a Trumpet Vine.

Aside from the nectar filled flowers which you will grow, a good hummingbird garden must also consist of an entire habitat for the birds. Make certain that there will always be a source of fresh clean water available for drinking as well as for bathing.
Create both sun and shade areas within your hummingbird habitat. Your hummingbirds need places in the shade to perch on as well as to build their nests on!
Willows and Eucalyptus trees provide much of the nesting materials which your hummingbirds will use, along with collected bits of leaves, spider webs, moss, and lichens to build their tiny nests. Hummingbirds must feed 3-5 times per hour to provide enough energy to keep your hummingbirds going. Once they have chosen your garden to nest in, they may become completely reliant on your garden for for their source of food. There may be periods of time when there are no blossoms available for them to collect natural nectar. For that reason it is a good idea to provide supplemental hummingbird feeders, hung about thirty feet apart throughout your garden.

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Use 4 parts water to one part sugar as the nectar, nothing else is needed. They should find it quickly. Adding flowers to your yard that attract hummers are the best addition that you can do. See a great site on hummers at:

http://www.rubythroat.org/

and there is a Yahoo newsgroup with good info at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HummingbirdHobnob/

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Dragonflies are found in numbers in areas where food is abundant, which is why you are likely seeing them in your yard. In our garden throughout the summer we have loads of dragonflies. In the garden there are lots of plants and trees, as well as lots of other insects and bugs. This means an abundance of food for the dragonflies, which prey on other insects, especially flies. You’ll find them zipping through swarms of mosquitoes, mayflies, caddisflies, and ants, hunting for their next meal. This is why you’ll often see lots of dragonflies near ponds and still bodies of water – they’re breeding grounds for many species of flies and other insects, and provide lots of food for hungry dragonflies.

Hope this has answered your question well for you. Take care!!

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It’s not a buzz ,in the last few years the honey bee population has lost about 60 percent of it’s population. They are all dying (mostly in N. America and Germany) and nobody can figure out why. I live in the orchard country of Michigan and the bee keepers that supply them with bees for pollination are quitting because their bees are all dying.

Mosquito’s have been hiding because of the drought but check out the lightning bugs tonight, there aren’t near as many as there were a few years ago. Butterflies? Same thing. The govt agencies are trying to keep it all quiet because they are at a loss for answers. Every now and then there is an article or news bit about all of this but it seems not enough people care. Could it be the start of something big? We’ll have to wait and see.

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“What’s the name of the lantern light that shocks insects such as flies or dragonflies that shocks and kills it when it touches it?”

http://home.howstuffworks.com/bug-zapper.htm

“Why do flies always flying around or landing on lights? Are they attracted to it?”

Ya think???

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Your turtles are eating your dragonflies. And you can’t stop them. Use mosquito dunks in the pond to deter mosquitoes. Check to be sure they are safe for turtles. They are safe for fish, I know.

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Communicating with animals will save about 30% or more of all extinctions. Preserving animal life is eminent.