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Not only are we the leading supplier of real, dried butterflies and insects, our butterfly experts offer valuable services for customers and collectors to make their purchases more enjoyable. If you have questions about any of these services, please contact us.
Primarily, our customers collect butterflies as a hobby like people enjoy collecting stamps and coins. Most of our customers put the butterflies they buy from us into a collection or display case, or into economical riker mounts. Some put them in frames or use them in crafts.
The butterflies for sale at The Butterfly Company are not spread or posed, but they are packaged and ready to be. We offer butterfly taxidermy spreading, posing, and framing as add-on services. To buy butterflies in bulk (quantities of 100+), please apply for a wholesale account.
Jul 11, 2024 · Attract butterflies to your garden with these 10 nectar-rich flowering plants. Choose a variety of plants that offer butterflies a nectar-rich spread and look forward to seeing many more of our fluttering friends in your garden.
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- Buddleia
- Lavender
- Hebe
- Ivy
- Honeysuckle
- Marjoram
- Privet
Otherwise known as the 'butterfly bush', buddleia (Buddleja) is one of the best nectar shrubs you can plant for butterflies. It attracts a wide variety of species, including red admiral, peacock and small tortoiseshell. The Buddleja davidii, Buddleja x weyeriana and Buddleja globosavarieties are the best options.
Lavender (Lavandula) is also a rich source of nectar throughout summer. Attract the widest range of species by planting varieties of English lavender, Lavandula angustifoliaand hybrid Lavandula x intermedia, over French lavender, Lavandula stoechas.
Nectar-rich hebeflowers come in shades of white, pink, purple and blue in midsummer, and will attract peacock, red admiral and small tortoiseshell butterflies.
Ivybenefits butterflies in a number of ways. In autumn its flowers attract late-flying species such as the red admiral. The holly blue butterfly lays its eggs on the flower buds in late summer, and the dense mass of leaves provides shelter for butterflies that overwinter as adults, such as the brimstone, peacock and small tortoiseshell.
Fragrant honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) is a cottage garden favourite, and its nectar-rich flowers attract a wide range of night-flying moths. It's also the larval food plant for the rare white admiral butterfly, which is highly unlikely to breed in gardens.
The flowers of marjoram or oregano (Origanum vulgare) are a magnet for many varieties of butterfly, including gatekeeper, common blue, small tortoiseshell, peacock, and the meadow brown. Its leaves offer larval food for the caterpillars of the mint moth, Pyrausta aurata.
If left to flower, privet and wild privet, Ligustrum vulgare, their white blooms attract a wide range of butterflies, including speckled wood, comma, holly blue, red admiral and peacock.
Sep 4, 2021 · Nettles, hops, lady’s smock, holly, ivy and meadow grasses provide food for the caterpillars of a wide range of butterfly species. We pick 10 plants that will attract butterflies to your garden, including buddleia and ice plant. Expert advice from BBC Gardeners' World Magazine.
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By choosing a selection of plants that offer a suitable food source for butterflies in spring, summer and autumn you can encourage them to return and get to know your garden as a continued source of food.
