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Gardening for Butterflies. Because butterflies are attracted to flowers, it is easy to plant a garden that both you and they can enjoy. Some of the species you may attract are listed in the table at right. A butterfly-friendly garden contains both adult nectar plants and caterpillar host plants. A few common vegetables also serve as caterpillar host plants. Many butterfly gardeners plant extra vegetables, enough for them and their caterpillars. As an added bonus, butterfly gardens often attract hummingbirds.
Mom to the rescue! This situation is one of the reasons it's good to have a butterfly garden buddy-extra host plant (caterpillar food plant) reserve. I was out of food, but she had dill, parsley, fennel and rue in her garden.he gave me some dill plants and a fennel plant, which I put in my garden by the caterpillars, and took her new caterpillars home. The caterpillars that remained chewed all the dill, fennel, and parsley down to nothing but stubs, and then vanished.