step one: move to oregon
step two: plant flowers
butterflies in oregon:
california sister, lorquin’s admiral, viceroy, weidemeyer’s admiral
callippe fritillary, coronis frit. great basin frit., great spangled frit., hydaspe frit., meadow frit., mormon frit., northwestern frit., pacific frit., silver-bordered frit., variegated frit., zerene frit., monarch, queen, american lady, california crescent, california tortoiseshell, common buckeye, compton tortoiseshell, edith’s checkerspot, european peacock, field crescent, gillette’s checkerspot, gray comma, green comma, hoary comma, hoffman’s checkerspot, leanira checkerspot, milbert’s tortoiseshell, mourning cloak, mylitta crescent, northern crescent, painted lady, pale crescent, red admiral, sagebrush checkerspot, satyr comma, variable checkerspot, west coast lady, anise swallowtail, indra swallowtail, old world swallowtail, pale swallowtail, pipevine swallowtail, two-tailed swallowtail, western tiger swallowtail, afranius duskywing, common checkered-skipper, common sootywing, dreamy duskywing, mexican cloudywing, mohave sootywing, northern cloudywing, northern white-skipper, pacuvius duskywing, persius duskywing, propertius duskywing, silver spotted skipper, two banded checkered skipper, western cloudywing
flowers to plant to attract these:
California buckeye.
milkweeds, thistles, ironweed, dogbane, mountain laurel, verbena, bergamot, red clover, joe-pye weed, and purple coneflower
goldenrod. Gaillardia, rabbitbrush, purple mints, and shrub cinquefoil. black-eyed susans, aster, goldenrod, marigold, selfheal, and vetch. fleabane, and asters, knapweed, beggar’s ticks,blueberry, wild strawberry, blackberry, Labrador tea, dogbane, New Jersey tea, winter cress, purple vetch, and lupine.
many butterflies also prefer tree sap, especially oak, and rotting fruit, only feeding on flower nectar occasionally. so i suppose i’ll keep those available as well.
