Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Show me your butterfly houses!, 1 by graciemae

graciemae wrote:
This is what I use and I have let out about 35 butterflies this year alone. I have a problem in my garden with wasps eating the larvae and the crystalis and so I keep butterfly weed in this in jars and cans and add the larvae as I find them into this netted sanctuary, until they hatch. The top has a zipper, so that it opens 1/2 way and then there is a small side zipper. The larvae seem very happy to eat and crawl around and then they go up to the top to go into crystalis. It has really helped my problem and saved many monarchs. I still have lots of them in my garden and many more yet to come. I'm leaving them out in the garden now, as the wasps seem to be gone and I have tons of butterfly weed growing.

I really like the picture of the big house - looks like it might be easier, but this has worked real well. I got it at a nursery last year.