Here are eleven ways to Attract Butterflies to your yard. The links below are Amazon affiliate links.

                                         Fruits on the ground
Leave fruits on the ground to feed your little guests. Slices of watermelon, strawberries and oranges are great because their bright color attracts butterflies. You can also use kiwi, peaches, and nectarines. Butterflies prefer overripe fruits.

                                              Bright flowers
Butterflies are shortsighted and in desperate need of glasses. Brightly colored flowers will get their attention. Red, orange, yellow, pink, and purple roses, hibiscuses, asters, and carnations will Attract Butterflies to your yard as well as make your garden explode in color like a rainbow.

Choose large flowers and place them close to each other, for as long at the butterflies keep their refusal to wear glasses because they might hide their lovely display of colors.

                                             A variety of flowers
Don’t let your tiny guests become bored with the same flowers. Give them a variety to choose from.

                                      Host plants for laying eggs
Make your yard butterfly friendly by planting host plants for female butterflies to lay their eggs on. Passionflowers, the butterfly bush (buddleja or buddleia) chokecherry, violets, snapdragons, and milkweed.

                                                            Sunlight
Place the flowers and fruits in a sunny part of your yard and make sure your garden gets plenty of sunshine. Sunlight is a powerful tool to attract butterflies to your garden.

                                                           Flat rocks
Guests need to rest. Put out the equivalent of easy chairs out to attract butterflies to your garden. Colorful flat rocks will get their attention.

                                                     The smell of sweat
You can attract butterflies to your yard by running a mile, and then taking of your sweaty shirt and hanging it on a rope stretched between two trees, or thrown on a bush or a flat rock. Butterflies like to drink salty sweat.

                                     Protect them from breezy conditions
Strong winds are hard on such little creatures. It carries them away like a hurricane. Be a good host and install windbreakers such as hedges, a row of trees very close together, or tall rocks or statues. Or get a butterfly house to protect them against wind and rain.

                                    Small water source for small guests
Butterflies get their liquid from nectar, but they like to puddle to get the minerals they need. Get a butterfly puddling stone to keep your guests splashing in the pool of the butterfly hotel that your garden will turn into.

                                                         Sugary water
Boil water and add sugar, with ten percent sugar and ninety percent water. Stir it together and let it cool down. Then put it in a tiny, brightly colored dish in your garden to attract the butterflies.

Butterflies don’t like large open water sources because they might drown. They prefer a small water source, or they can get liquid from mud.

                                                  Butterfly feeders
Get a butterfly feeder to serve as a dinner table for your winged, colorful guests.