Community ButterflyScaping: How to Move Beyond Butterfly Gardening to Create a Large-Scale Butterfly Habitat

Abstract

ENH1160, a 20-page illustrated fact sheet by Kathy C. Malone, Wendy Wilber, Gail Hansen, Jaret C. Daniels, Claudia Larsen, and Esen Momol, provides developers, community associations, and homeowners with guidance in planning the vegetation in common areas, stormwater management systems, undeveloped areas, and yards to form large-scale habitats attractive to butterflies, pollinators, birds, and other local wildlife. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Environmental Horticulture, September 2010. ENH1160/EP420: Community ButterflyScaping: How to Move Beyond Butterfly Gardening to Create a Large-Scale Butterfly Habitat (ufl.edu)

Patterns and determinants of plant, butterfly and beetle diversity reveal optimal city grassland management and green urban planning

“…This can be done in strips, blocks, or irregular shape areas, which means the mowing regime is diversified (Cizek et al, 2012). Such management could be part of the so called, butterfly gardening or ButterflyScaping (e.g., Malone et al, 2010) -which especially means leaving unmowed strips in lawns and maintaining or planting areas with nectar plants. This could also be used for the grasslands located in the city center because it not only has biodiversity benefits but also has aesthetic value (Southon et al, 2017), which is provided by flowering plants and conspicuous day-flying butterflies.…”