Attract butterflies to your garden

Try making a butterfly feeding station. It’s quite simple, find a flat bases tray (this could be an old baking tray, foil tray or garden pot saucer. Place tray in a warm sunny position and add a shallow layer of sugar water (one part sugar to ten parts water heated until sugar dissolves, then left to cool) and slices of fruit. Butterflies like ripe or over ripe fruit. Orange slices, pineapple slices and bruised banana seem to be a favourite. You could add a sponge soaked in the sugar water. If there are bees and wasps cucumber could deter them.

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