Besides having beautiful framed butterflies in your house you can also attract wild butterflies to your yard and garden quite naturally with the right plants! More specifically plants with suitable flowers from which each insect can obtain nectar. Both butterflies and moths live only on flower nectar sipped through their flexible and retractable tube-like proboscis"tongue" that uncoils to sip liquid food, and then coils it back up into a spiral when done slurping.

Most butterflies utilize a wide variety of flowers from which to feed, including many cultivated varieties of nectar sources. However, even more critical to their survival is for the plants that provide food for the larva-caterpillar stage, especially since most species only accept one or a limited few plant species at this stage. If you find butterflies near your area, increase their populations by planting the correct food plants for their caterpillars to feed on. Although caterpillars will need to feed on the leaves of these plants, the damage to them is usually minor and only of temporary consequence. Some caterpillar species feed on plants which we usually consider weeds, in this case you can benefit populations of these species by not removing all of the weeds.